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From: fhatchjr <>
Subject: Re: Different sized capitals and multi-word surnames
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:15:40 -0700


i'd hate to argue with your french, but doesn't Van mean
from as in from der Pool or From new York as they say
in the bronx.

joyce vermaak wrote:
>
> For my two cents worth. The correct way in South Africa, these being dutch names would be, e.g. Van der Walt. or Van der Merwe. Actually the VAN translated means NAME. Van der Poel. When I have come across all cap names, I have transcribed Large Cap as a Cap and thus small caps as lower case. I have had no complaints from my coordinator. Thank goodness.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Tatham
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 3:57 AM
> To:
> Subject: Different sized capitals and multi-word surnames
>
> At the risk of opening a can of worms, I'd like to know what the official
> position is with capitalisation. I've looked in the FAQ and it doesn't seem
> to cover the point below (apologies if I missed it).
>
> The fiche I am transcribing has surnames all in capitals, except that the
> capitals aren't all the same size. Thus SMITH appears with a large S and
> smaller MITH but still all in capital letters.
>
> Do I transcribe this as SMITH or Smith?
>
> The reason I ask is that I have just got to the letter V and found surnames
> such as:
>
> VAN DEN END
>
> Again these are all in capitals. But the V and E are bigger ones. The D is
> not. This suggests the preferred capitalisation of that name is
>
> Van den End
>
> If we change the capitals to lower case like this, we are inventing new
> information. If we just transcribe as all upper case, we are losing
> information. I can't transcribe it the way I see it as the machine only has
> one size caps.
>
> What is the official position?
>
> And can this be added to the FAQ, perhaps specifically explaining what to do
> in this case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
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