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

[Sebastian Krämer]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 11:56, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
> On Saturday 14 May 2005 11:30, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:45:54AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:

> > 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.

Ah, I overlooked something there. In one case, capitatlization takes place:
"to introduce a quotation, which may be intended:"
I guess that's never used in the man page though.

Sebastian