Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Mistakes in source strings

Hi Andras, Heiko and Adolfo,

thanks for your explanations. I learned about preposition and its
capitalisation.


Regards
Annabelle

Member of the German translation team

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 1:21 PM Annabelle Wübbelsmann <translowl@web.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Can you tell me, why the word "From" have a capitalised initial letter?
> > Usually "from" is written with a lowercase initial letter.
>
> In this case, the preposition is the last word of the term that, as Heiko
> says, lacks quotation marks. In title casing, the first and last words are
> always capitalized, regardless of whether they are prepositions. So it’s
> correct in this case.
>
> Also, BTW, the writing rules on the wiki are merely so that newly
> introduced strings do not repeat the same past mistakes; the intention is
> not to have everything already existing match them, precisely because of
> the workload it would impose on all of us, as András said.
>
> Adolfo

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