pedantry alert -- what is the proper spelling of "barebox"?

pedantry alert -- what is the proper spelling of "barebox"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  sascha already knows that i'm going to be poking around the wiki
documentation and doing some editing, so what is the proper spelling
of barebox, particularly in the middle of a sentence? i'm asking this
publicly so that others can see the answer in case they were going to
do any writing, for the sake of consistency.

  for example, in the very first section of the wiki, it's spelled
both as "barebox" and "Barebox".  it really should be consistent.

rday

p.s.  just to be annoying, from a technical writing point of view, if
the proper name is "barebox", then it should be rendered that way,
even if it's the first word in a sentence, which will look weird but
them's the rules. :-)

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Re: pedantry alert -- what is the proper spelling of "barebox"?

[Sascha Hauer]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:01:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   sascha already knows that i'm going to be poking around the wiki
> documentation and doing some editing, so what is the proper spelling
> of barebox, particularly in the middle of a sentence? i'm asking this
> publicly so that others can see the answer in case they were going to
> do any writing, for the sake of consistency.
> 
>   for example, in the very first section of the wiki, it's spelled
> both as "barebox" and "Barebox".  it really should be consistent.

It's 'barebox'. barebox even has a small letter when at the beginning of
a sentence. I'm normally after this, but espially office programs are
sometimes hard to convince that this is correct.

Sascha


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Re: pedantry alert -- what is the proper spelling of "barebox"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:01:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   sascha already knows that i'm going to be poking around the wiki
> > documentation and doing some editing, so what is the proper spelling
> > of barebox, particularly in the middle of a sentence? i'm asking this
> > publicly so that others can see the answer in case they were going to
> > do any writing, for the sake of consistency.
> >
> >   for example, in the very first section of the wiki, it's spelled
> > both as "barebox" and "Barebox".  it really should be consistent.
>
> It's 'barebox'. barebox even has a small letter when at the
> beginning of a sentence. I'm normally after this, but espially
> office programs are sometimes hard to convince that this is correct.

  ok, thanks for the clarification, i'll even add that note to the
wiki early on.

rday


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