[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en mencoder.xml,1.62,1.63

[Sebastian Krämer]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 11:30, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:45:54AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:
> > >+  Besides being ugly, the artifacts also harm coding efficiency:
> > >+  You will get worse quality per bitrate.
> >
> > The word following a colon does not automatically get capitalized.
>
> I've found no clear rule on this and settled on the following: If there
> is a full sentence (verb and all) after the colon it gets capitalized.
> I'm not sure what the official rule is in English.  I thought this was
> the rule in German, but I'm not 100% certain anymore.

I'm 100% sure your're right with that in German. For english, I decided to 
have a look at my AOLD (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary) from school 
days. It states three different uses of a colon. In all cases, subsequent 
text after a colon is *not* capitalized.

Sebastian