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Serenity Operating System
1# Guidelines for user interface text in SerenityOS
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3## Capitalization
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5SerenityOS employs two capitalization styles:
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7- Book title capitalization
8- Sentence-style capitalization
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10### Book title capitalization
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12In this style, we capitalize the first letter of the first and last word,
13as well as all words in between, *except* articles (a, an, the);
14the seven coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so);
15and prepositions with up to four letters (at, by, for, with, into, ...)
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17#### Examples:
18- Create New Layer
19- Copy URL
20- Move to Front
21- Save and Exit
22- Sort by Name
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24#### Used for:
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26- Button text
27- Icon labels
28- Menu names
29- Menu items
30- Tab titles
31- Window titles
32- Tooltips
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34### Sentence-style capitalization
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36This style follows basic English sentence capitalization.
37We capitalize the first letter of the first word, along with the first letter
38of proper names, weekdays, etc.
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40#### Examples:
41- An error occurred
42- Use system defaults
43- Copy the selected text
44- Enable Linux compatibility hacks
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46#### Used for:
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48- Check box labels
49- Group box labels
50- List items
51- Messages (as in message boxes)
52- Radio button labels
53- Status bar text
54- Text box labels