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Subject:RE: How well understood is sentence case? From:"Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com> To:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>, "Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 14 May 2007 16:01:50 +0100
>Is there a well understood term for describing a string of characters
>where the first letter is uppercase and the rest are lowercase?
>
>Title Case seems "official," sentence case less so.
I'm not familiar with either term, but if I encountered the term
'Sentence case' I'd at least be in with a chance of getting it right.
If you told me to use 'Title Case' on something I'd probably Write Like
This.
Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author
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