From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 8 23:44:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8291514C1B for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.144]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA5CE2; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:44:11 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA66910; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:19:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:19:55 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spelling of ASCII in man pages? Message-ID: <19990909081955.Q64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199909090024.UAA46785@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <199909090024.UAA46785@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Stephen J. Roznowski (sjr@home.net) [990909 07:14]: >I've noticed on several of the man pages that ASCII has various >spellings: ASCII, Ascii, ascii. > >Should these be corrected to ASCII? Given how anal we are about FreeBSD.org we should prolly be as anal about this. The best documentation is consistent. This goes double for contractions. Contractions in documentation are a BIG no-no. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best If you're fighting to live, It's ok to die! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message