Re: [PATCH 21/22] sequencer: left-trim the lines read from the script

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> > Interactive rebase's scripts may be indented; We need to handle this
> >> > case, too, now that we prepare the sequencer to process interactive
> >> > rebases.
> >> 
> >> s/; We need/; we need/
> >
> > Hrmpf. From http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm:
> >
> > 	There is some disagreement among writing reference manuals about
> > 	when you should capitalize an independent clause following a
> > 	colon. Most of the manuals advise that when you have more than one
> > 	sentence in your explanation or when your sentence(s) is a formal
> > 	quotation, a capital is a good idea. The NYPL Writer's Guide urges
> > 	consistency within a document; the Chicago Manual of Style says
> > 	you may begin an independent clause with a lowercase letter unless it's
> > 	one of those two things (a quotation or more than one sentence).
> > 	The APA Publication Manual is the most extreme: it advises us to
> > 	always capitalize an independent clause following a colon. The advice
> > 	given above is consistent with the Gregg Reference Manual.
> >
> > Based on that, I think that a capital is the correct case here.
> 
> Does that manual have anything to say about semicolons, which is a
> different thing?