Help talk:Spelling and Punctuation
Sigh, working on Help:Names .... which points directly to here.
... does anyone know where to look-up in-game... Rune-inscribed Brass Earring?
On this page it was originally spelled using "bold" to highlight the letter i of inscribed. However, by "bolding," the lower case letter is substituted with a small cap, arguably also lower case, but in the context of the line of text ... clearly uppercase.
Original:
For names with dashes, the first letter after a dash should not be capitalized, e.g. Rune-inscribed Brass Earring which in-game reads Rune-Inscribed Brass Earring.
Eliminating the bolding:
For names with dashes, the first letter after a dash should not be capitalized, e.g. Rune-inscribed Brass Earring which in-game reads Rune-Inscribed Brass Earring.
However, this renders the explanation rather redundant... the first letter after the dash IS lower case... unless the implication of the sentence is that the in-game item is in fact upper case after the dash..... and the example is intended to illustrate the fact that we do NOT always follow the in-game spelling, punctuation, etc.
So which should it be... in-game uses a Capital i and we are therefore violating the "match" rule, or in-game uses lower-case i and the sentence is redundant.
If we are trying to say... the item is stored in lower case but displayed in upper case by use of the | trick... that needs to be explicitly explained. Wm Magill - Valamar - OTG/OTC (talk) 18:19, 27 October 2011 (EDT)
- Bold does not do that on my computer. So, I now looked at the html-source of that page, ad I lifted the text to an ASCI/HEX-reader, and the letters are indeed generic i and I, no magic to them, just with or without <b> around them. This is definitely not a server thing but it is something with how your machine and/or browser renders it? You use Apple, right? They may render differently. It may also be the font you have selected, the browser perhaps uses small-capitals for lower-case bold letters, but again that is at your side. This does not mean that should overly use bold lower-case "i" everywhere, if it is a known issue I'd rather do not, but we would still see this problem everywhere something is bold and happens to read an "i". Thus I consider it an existing but negligible issue --- a software programmer would give it priority 5 in Bugzilla == Cosmetic Annoyance ;)
- We are trying to say that we sometimes want to make Turbine stand corrected. But that choice is beyond my realm. Trivia: in Swedish anything after the leading word is lower-case, except names. Also in headers and titles :P