Many translatable strings in English have unexplained capital letters

[amire80]

Many translatable strings in locale-en.json use words with capital letters in the middle of the sentence. The usage of these capital letters is unclear. The translator may think that this has a particular meaning that must be reflected in the translation and become confused. So if the capital letters really need to be there, it must be explained in the context documentation (see #345). If the capital letters are not really needed, they must be changed to small letters.

[amire80]

(I showed this problem to Nayan in the Language Summit in Pune.)

[Nayan]

@amire80 thanks lot. It was my ignorance not look at those mistakes. I have started looking at how to put consistent text for all titles, menus, tooltip, tabs, and push buttons.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa974176.aspx#capitalization
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines
• http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/8352/capitalization-of-user-interface-buttons
• http://www.openoffice.org/specs/collaterals/guides/_components.inv/UITextStyleGuide.html

[Nayan]

@gsluthra @amire80 @edcable does below guidelines makes sense?

User Interface Guidelines: Capitalization

ID	Element Type	Applied style
1	Menus	Headline style
2	Titles	Headline style
2	Tabs	Headline style
2	Column headings	Headline style
2	Push buttons	Headline style
2	Control labels	Sentence style
2	Group labels	Headline style
2	Error message	Sentence style
2	Simple text fields	Sentence style

[amire80]

Thanks for the thorough work! Looking for advice in existing style guides is the right way to do this.

I am not sure what is exactly the meaning of "Sentence style" and "Headline style". Can you define it, please?

[Nayan]

@amire80 below are the rules for styles

For "Headline style" capitalization:

• Capitalize all nouns, verbs (including is and other forms of to be), adverbs (including than and when), adjectives (including this and that), and pronouns (including its).
• Capitalize the first and last words, regardless of their parts of speech (for example, The Text to Look For).
• Capitalize prepositions that are part of a verb phrase (for example, Backing Up Your Disk).
• Don't capitalize articles (a, an, the), unless the article is the first word in the title.
• Don't capitalize coordinate conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or), unless the conjunction is the first word in the title.
• Don't capitalize prepositions of four or fewer letters, unless the preposition is the first word in the title.
• Don't capitalize to in an infinitive phrase (for example, How to Format Your Hard Disk), unless the phrase is the first word in the title.
• Capitalize the second word in compound words if it is a noun or proper adjective, an "e-word," or the words have equal weight (for example, E-Commerce, Cross-Reference, Pre-Microsoft Software, Read/Write Access, Run-Time). Do not capitalize the second word if it is another part of speech, such as a preposition or other minor word (for example, Add-in, How-to, Take-off).
  • Capitalize user interface and application programming interface terms that you would not ordinarily capitalize, unless they are case-sensitive (for example, The fdisk Command). Follow the traditional capitalization of keywords and other special terms in programming languages (for example, The printf Function, Using the EVEN and ALIGN Directives).
• Capitalize only the first word of each column heading.

For sentence-style capitalization:

• Always capitalize the first word of a new sentence.
  • Don't capitalize the word following a colon unless the word is a proper noun, or the text following the colon is a complete sentence.
  • Don't capitalize the word following an em-dash unless it is a proper noun, even if the text following the dash is a complete sentence.
  • Always capitalize the first word of a new sentence following any end punctuation. Rewrite sentences that start with a case-sensitive lowercase word.

took above definitions from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511441.aspx#titleCaps

[amire80]

OK, if you adopt the Eclipse style then it's reasonable.