Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:56:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20011101185642.D95997@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <72962.1004605004@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <200110312326.f9VNQ4O00103@freefall.freebsd.org> <72962.1004605004@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:56:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:26:04 PST, Chern Lee wrote:
>
> > * manpages -> man pages
>
> This is an odd change.
>
> You've gone from a contracted word that clearly represents jargon to two
> normal English words that may not represent jargon. I would have
> thought the order of preference for ease of comprehension would be:
>
> manual page
> manpage
> man page
On the other hand, it seems that current practise follows the style
that Chern used more often than not.
$ pwd
/d/local/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1
$ find . -name \*sgml | xargs grep -i 'man page' | wc -l
71
$ find . -name \*sgml | xargs grep -i 'manpage' | wc -l
30
-giorgos
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