[jboss-as7-dev] Documentation headers

Carlo de Wolf cdewolf at redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 07:47:35 EDT 2011


I used the same style as the JSRs.

e.g. "Specification of Transaction Attributes with Metadata Annotations"

Carlo

On 07/05/2011 01:07 PM, Pete Muir wrote:
> I think it's wrong to capitalize every word  except in the title of the guide. I have never seen this done in tech docs.
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> I am aware of two conventions.
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> 1) "minor words" - conjunctions, articles, prepositions, pronouns are lower case, whilst nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs are capitalised. e.g. "JBoss Application Server 7 is a Extremely Nice Project." "JBoss Application Server 7 Runs in Eclipse Very Well"
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> or
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> 2) All words are lower case except proper nouns (just like a sentence).  e.g. "JBoss Application Server 7 is an extremely nice project" "JBoss Application Server run in Eclipse very well".
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> I think option (2) is by far and away the best. I've looked at the Admin Guide and this is the usage there. There Getting Started Guide almost uses this. I noticed a couple of errors in the Getting Started Developing Applications Guide but this is the style I intended.
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> On 5 Jul 2011, at 11:56, Kabir Khan wrote:
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>> The capitalization of the headers in the docs is a bit arbitrary
>>
>> Some Places We Do This
>> Other places use this
>>
>> This needs to be standardized. Either we choose one of the two options or
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>> h1 + h2: We Use This
>> h3++: We use this
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