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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:06:54PM +0200, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
> 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.

Wanderer, Rich, do you agree with that rule?  Then I'm afraid I will
have to budge and accept it ;-)

Diego