| 10 Nov 2023 |
 fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
Style question: do we capitalize every (important) word in titles, or just the first? Statistically speaking only the first. The reason is because I find that saner than learning rules that don’t apply for any other parts of the text, and I merged a lot of stuff. Would help to add that to the style guide. | 12:49:59 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
Style question: do we capitalize every (important) word in titles, or just the first? * Statistically speaking only the first. The reason is because I find that saner than learning rules that don’t apply for any other parts of the text, and I merged a lot of stuff. Would help to add that to the style guide if we agree on it. | 12:50:29 |
 asymmetric | wdym statistically? | 12:51:09 |
| asymmetric | fwiw i think capitalizing every important word is a known standard (e.g. APA recommends it), but i think it doesn't always look great on the web | 12:51:38 |
| asymmetric | * fwiw capitalizing every important word is a known standard (e.g. APA recommends it), but i think it doesn't always look great on the web | 12:51:44 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
wdym statistically? A large part is like that | 12:57:04 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
wdym statistically? * A large fraction of headings is like that | 12:57:14 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
fwiw capitalizing every important word is a known standard (e.g. APA recommends it), but i think it doesn't always look great on the web It is and I find it stupid but I may be wrong. | 12:57:39 |
| asymmetric | the point of standards is not necessarily that they're the most intelligent solution out there. but point taken 😉 personally, i'm fine with going for sentence-capitalization. i'll open a pr to discuss further | 12:59:58 |
 toonn | It's mostly a US - Europe divide AFAIK. | 13:16:32 |
 Minijackson | the Microsoft Style Guide recommends sentence-style capitalization: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/capitalization | 14:14:02 |
| Minijackson | wasn't there some efforts recently for adding vale to nix.dev? There's a lint for that | 14:14:52 |
| asymmetric | 
Download microsoft.png | 14:52:56 |
| asymmetric | seems like they're breaking their own style guide here? | 14:53:49 |
| Minijackson | oh you mean "Microsoft Style Guide" ? | 14:54:22 |
| Minijackson | I guess so 😆 | 14:54:41 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
seems like they're breaking their own style guide here? We should open a PR. (not really) | 14:57:02 |
| asymmetric | i know people at microsoft, i'll call them immediately | 14:57:19 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
It's mostly a US - Europe divide AFAIK. In that case it's settled, because we already have many eurocentric conventions and I'd like to keep it consistent. | 14:58:05 |
| asymmetric | settled in which direction? | 14:58:39 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
settled in which direction? Sentence-style capitalisation | 14:58:48 |
| asymmetric | lol @ capitaliSation though | 14:58:59 |
| fricklerhandwerk | In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
lol @ capitaliSation though British English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capitalisation | 14:59:46 |
| asymmetric | Oxford British would like to have a word with you though | 15:00:11 |
| asymmetric | anyway, that's a separate rabbit hole, i'm out 😉 | 15:00:34 |
| asymmetric | In reply to @Minijackson:matrix.org
wasn't there some efforts recently for adding vale to nix.dev? There's a lint for that indeed there is https://vale.sh/docs/topics/styles/#capitalization. we should add vale | 15:12:51 |
 proofconstruction | it would be great to be able to declare the style guide, and have that automatically checked (and ideally auto-corrected) everywhere | 15:38:37 |
| asymmetric | In reply to @proofconstruction:matrix.org
it would be great to be able to declare the style guide, and have that automatically checked (and ideally auto-corrected) everywhere wdym? isn't a vale config file a declaration of (parts of) the style guide? | 16:03:22 |
| proofconstruction | yes, I'm saying I support adding it | 16:04:04 |
| proofconstruction | rereading my previous message I can see that isn't at all clear. oops | 16:04:45 |
