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Re: [docbook-apps] Cross references starting with lowercase letters
- From: Justus dot Piater at ULg dot ac dot be (Justus H. Piater)
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:14:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Cross references starting with lowercase letters
- References: <4188AE4E.6040807@mpi-sb.mpg.de>
> "As we have seen in ***S***ection 2.3.1, the busy beaver function is
> uncomputable."
>
> What I like to have is
>
> "As we have seen in ***s***ection 2.3.1, the busy beaver function is
> uncomputable."
It is proper English style to use uppercase here because "Section"
takes on the role of a proper name: "see Section 6, but see also the
following section". The same holds for Equation, Figure, Theorem, etc.
Justus
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