+1 to this
- Chris Roberts
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From: "Rikki Endsley" <rendsley(a)redhat.com>
To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 3:26:24 PM
Subject: Re: Do we have a style guide for Fedora Magazine? Should we?
I think a brief style guide is a good idea. We could include it on an expanded "write
for us" page (
http://fedoramagazine.org/submit-an-idea-or-tip/) that includes a few
editorial guidelines (what kind of articles are best for Fedora Magazine, who is the
audience, who are the people to contact if you have questions, etc.). Here's an
example:
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/About-Us/Write-for-Us
Sentence case for titles is probably the easiest way to go. I think it also looks better
in a tweet if readers click the article tweet button.
Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist
Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat
http://community.redhat.com/
Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Lerch" <rlerch(a)redhat.com>
To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 2:13:58 PM
Subject: Do we have a style guide for Fedora Magazine? Should we?
Hi all,
Just wondering if we should consider a brief style guide for Fedora
magazine?
One item to cover on this would definitely be how to capitalize the
titles of our posts. Having this consistent is always a good thing.
For the capitialization of posts, my vote is for sentence case. This
tends to be the most popular currently in online publications [1], [2].
and in my honest opinion, it is not as harsh and shouty as the
alternative title case. Title case is also a lot harder to get
consistent, as many people have different ideas of what to capitalise.
For example, the sentence case is simple, capitalize the first word, and
any proper nouns:
Fedora 21 will feature "Solarized" color schemes in both the Terminal
and Gedit
and the title case (depending on who is writing it) could be:
Fedora 21 will Feature "Solarized" Color Schemes in Both The Terminal
and Gedit
or
Fedora 21 Will Feature "Solarized" Color Schemes in Both The Terminal
and Gedit
cheers,
ryanlerch
[1] -
http://www.theverge.com/
[2] -
http://lwn.net/
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