Is it calibre or Calibre?

nrapallo · 04-24-2009, 12:28 AM

Well, I know Kovid's take on this (see his signature); it should be "calibre", but why do I feel so inclined to give it proper noun status, as in "Calibre"?

Even the MobilRead.com Calibre forums are on "my side"

as you can see by the description at the top of this page i.e. "Calibre New! Calibre is an open-source..."

What do you think? Does it matter?

(In the end it only matters to one person...

)

kovidgoyal · 04-24-2009, 12:47 AM

I know there's a ticket somewhere in calibre's trac where this was discussed. My preference is for lowercase since I do a lot of typing and use the CLI a lot, so uppercase names are a strict no-no.

04-24-2009, 12:28 AM	#1
nrapallo GuteBook/Mobi2IMP Creator Posts: 2,958 Karma: 2530691 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: REB1200 EBW1150 Device: T1 NSTG iLiad_v2 NC Device: Asus_TF Next1 WPDN	Is it calibre or Calibre? Well, I know Kovid's take on this (see his signature); it should be "calibre", but why do I feel so inclined to give it proper noun status, as in "Calibre"? Even the MobilRead.com Calibre forums are on "my side" as you can see by the description at the top of this page i.e. "Calibre New! Calibre is an open-source..." What do you think? Does it matter? (In the end it only matters to one person... )

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04-24-2009, 12:47 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,656 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I know there's a ticket somewhere in calibre's trac where this was discussed. My preference is for lowercase since I do a lot of typing and use the CLI a lot, so uppercase names are a strict no-no.

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