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

[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:06:54PM +0200, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 14 May 2005 11:56, Sebastian Krämer wrote:

>>> 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, capitalization 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 ;-)

It makes sense to me, but I haven't looked at a lot of examples to test
that first reaction against yet. I'd be inclined to support it at least
in the short term, however, since I don't think it likely to cause too
many problems.

-- 
       The Wanderer

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side of it.

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