Posted by dorayme on 01/13/45 11:29

> From: "Edward Scott" <shakermaker@attglobal.net>
>
> Neredbojias wrote:
>> With neither quill nor qualm, Edward Scott quothed:
>>
>>> firstly, there is no reason to start sentences with capital letters.
>>> furthermore I find doing so looks quite ugly.
>>
>> Yeah there is. It's a tradition among the literate.
>>
>
> tradition isn't a good reason to do something.
>
....

> I'm new to html. give me a break. besides, as I already said, every
> example of CSS I have seen online specifies font size in points.
>

You sure about this? Anyway, pt /is/ a print description rather
than a screen one where it is less meaningful (pardon me if I
have missed the context).

About tradition: no, it is not a good reason to do something in
itself. It works more like this. If it has been a good and
useful one, breaking with it mostly needs a bit of a reason, not
always, just mostly. For short messages, there is not a lot of
point in capital letters to begin sentences. But in longer
tracts, paras and stuff, it becomes important for the eye to
spot new sentences and thoughts...

I have to go now, I have to renew my Conservative Party
subscription.

dorayme

(Give the guy a break Boji! Lowercase is not so bad a crime. In
fact, sometimes, in emails, it is rather nice, a developing
tradition! Sometimes I find myself in lowercase moods... :)

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