[Ffmpeg-cvslog] CVS: ffmpeg/doc ffserver-doc.texi,1.6,1.7

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:14:37PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Joshua Varner wrote:
> > On 6/11/05, M?ns Rullg?rd <mru at mru.ath.cx> wrote:
> > > The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Nit: a colon does not terminate a sentence, so to the best of my
> > > > understanding the following word ("The") does not need to be
> > > > capitalized. This is fine otherwise.
> > > 
> > > I think you're right.  Is there any good online summary of the English
> > > rules of punctuation?
> > > 
> > I was basing that off of MLA style rules, which allow a colon to
> > introduce a list; so, no capitalization.
> > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6354/grammar.html#Colons
> 
> This example is not clear: One of the examples has a sentence
> capitalized after the colon.

I googled around a bit, most places claim that words after colons should
be capitalized if they introduce complete sentences, some say that
capitalization is optional, very few claim it should be lowercased.

I'll keep capitalizing after colons.  It's the most logical way.

Diego