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Subject:Re: File names in text From:Nora Merhar <merhar -at- ALENA -dot- SWITCH -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 1995 08:58:10 CST
Bill Hartzer said
> Personally, I CAPITALIZE all the letters in, for example: FILE.TXT, and also,
> if feasible, I will also put the filename in bold type. In no case will I
> ever change a font in the middle of a sentence! I WILL put it in caps, bold,
> or italics. I find it utterly annoying to capitalize just the first letter
> of a word (be it a filename or not) in the middle of a sentence. It's just
> bad grammar.
I haven't been paying very close attention to this thread, so someone may
already have mentioned this, but what do you do if the file names are case-
dependent (as in Unix)? I would change the font to one that approximates
what you would see on screen, or bold it, but I wouldn't capitalize the
file name unless that's the way it actually has to appear.
Nora
merhar -at- alena -dot- switch -dot- rockwell -dot- com
