Re: Bug#220780: ITP: zope-zms -- Content management for science, technology and medicine
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:03, Florent Rougon wrote:
> 1. You are making the assumption that the first word of a short
> description can be safely capitalized (but not decapitalized, go
> figure why), which is clearly wrong in general.
If descriptions are formatted as I've been describing, capitalisation
rules laid out by Branden and myself are not "clearly wrong in general."
> 2. You try to convince people of the advantages of the proposed "policy"
> (uh, that's wishful phrasing) by giving them the famous example of a
> sentence that could hypothetically be generated by a package manager,
> i.e. above:
>
> The package <package> provides <short description>.
>
> but I have yet to see a way to generate such sentences correctly for
> every short description possible (hint: with your proposal, you'd
> have to tell everyone to add the leading "a " back to all short
> descriptions whose object is not a plural. I am sure they will
> appreciate!).
I'm not sure where the problem lies here. The point is to write
descriptions such that this _is_ possible.
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