www/58029: [patch] news/press: correct capitalization of headlines

Josef El-Rayes j.el-rayes at daemon.li
Tue Oct 14 15:10:15 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR www/58029; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes at daemon.li>
To: Colin Percival <colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: freebsd-www at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: www/58029: [patch] news/press: correct capitalization of headlines
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:08:28 +0200

 Colin Percival <colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
 >     I think you'll also find, in the Chicago Manual of Style, the following 
 >  rule: "When quoting another author, or referencing a work, keep the 
 >  existing punctuation and capitalization unless it is gratuitously wrong (in 
 >  which case [sic] should be added)."
 >     Since these are all links to external articles, they should be left 
 >  unchanged.
 
 this is why i asked in an above mail, whether i should keep it the way
 it was in the original document or fix it to apply these rules.
 
 ceri, did i misunderstand your email?
 
 -josef
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