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- From: crombie@iisat.alt.ns.ca
- Subject: Re: Capitalization (dubious MOTSS content)
- Organization: Public Access UNIX
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 02:17:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.021704.4635@iisat.alt.ns.ca>
- References: <C03FEL.I7H@fig.citib.com>
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- In article <C03FEL.I7H@fig.citib.com>, glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
- (about a problem with capitalization)>
- > I refer to certain documents - the Business Requirements
- > Specification is one of them - by one of:
- > the name: The Business Requirements Specification
- > the initials: The BRS
- > the short name: The specification
- >
- > It's the last one that has me stumped. There are no
- > other specifications (so no ambiguity) but it somehow
- > doesn't seem right to have the short name as lower case.
- >
- Oh a style question! I love style questions!
- It is standard Canadian Press-Associated Press style to capitalize
- only the full proper name. Subsequent short form references are
- lower case, except in very specific circumstances -- such as referring
- to Congress, the House etc etc.
-
- Of course, you may not wish to follow our style. But the CP style book
- IS a bestseller in Canada, and the most widely referred to editing text
- in the country.
-
- It's the bible. I sleep with under my pillow.
-
- I have to. I work there.
-
-
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- Kevin Crombie Public Access Unix
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