Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:45:39 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ceri@FreeBSD.org Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive archive_write.3 Message-ID: <20040706.064539.16966332.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040705191116.GB7690@submonkey.net> References: <200407051808.i65I8WhT097397@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040705191116.GB7690@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies <ceri@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 06:08:32PM +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote:
: > kientzle 2004-07-05 18:08:32 UTC
: >
: > FreeBSD src repository
: >
: > Modified files:
: > lib/libarchive archive_write.3
: > Log:
: > ru@'s ambitious sweep through the manpages is mostly a good thing,
: > but some colons are supposed to be followed by uppercase letters.
:
: > | @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Freeze the settings, open the archive, a
: > | This is the most generic form of this function, which accepts
: > | pointers to three callback functions which will be invoked by
: > | the library to write the constructed archive.
: > | -Note: internally, the callbacks are invoked by the compression layer.
: > | +Note: Internally, the callbacks are invoked by the compression layer.
:
: Not that one, though.
I just asked a friend that teaches English and writes professionally.
It used to be the case that there was always a capital after ':'.
This rule has been relaxed in the last few dozen years so that it is
now optional. Her option would be to capitalize it when it is a
complete clause on its own, but that's just her opinion.
In other words, from a langauge point of view (at leas for en_US), it
just doesn't matter.
Warner
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