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Date:      Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:55:22 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r303120 - head/Mk
Message-ID:  <201208250755.q7P7tMYh002490@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: danfe
Date: Sat Aug 25 07:55:22 2012
New Revision: 303120
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/303120

Log:
  Improve options descriptions: consistently move "support" word to the end
  when appropriate; use official spellings of the projects mentioned; provide
  more details in overly concise descriptions and reword others for better
  readability; fix couple of typos.

Modified:
  head/Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk

Modified: head/Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk
==============================================================================
--- head/Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk	Sat Aug 25 06:42:58 2012	(r303119)
+++ head/Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk	Sat Aug 25 07:55:22 2012	(r303120)
@@ -14,108 +14,108 @@ Options_Desc_MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.o
 #  Length         |	|                   Length                |
 #
 A52_DESC?=		AC-3 support using liba52
-AAC_DESC?=		AAC/MP4 support
-AACPLUS_DESC?=		aac support using libaacplus
-AALIB_DESC?=		Aalib support
-ALSA_DESC?=		Alsa audio support
+AAC_DESC?=		AAC/MP4 format support
+AACPLUS_DESC?=		AAC support using libaacplus
+AALIB_DESC?=		Aalib (ASCII-art library) support
+ALSA_DESC?=		ALSA audio architecture support
 AMR_DESC?=		openCORE AMR 3GPP Speech Codecs
 AMR_NB_DESC?=		AMR Narrow Band audio support (opencore)
 AMR_WB_DESC?=		AMR Wide Band audio support (opencore)
-AO_DESC?=		Support libao audio library
-APACHE_DESC?=		Apache server
+AO_DESC?=		libao audio library support
+APACHE_DESC?=		Apache server support
 APE_DESC?=		Monkey's Audio support
-ARCHIVE_DESC?=		Support bzip2/zip/iso9660 archive
-ARTS_DESC?=		Arts audio system support
+ARCHIVE_DESC?=		bzip2/zip/iso9660 archive support
+ARTS_DESC?=		aRts audio system support
 ASM_DESC?=		Use optimized assembly code
 ASPELL_DESC?=		Spell checking via Aspell
 ASSERT_DESC?=		Debug assertions
-AVAHI_DESC?=		Support Zeroconf through Avahi
+AVAHI_DESC?=		Zeroconf support through Avahi
 BDB_DESC?=		Berkeley DB support
 BDB1_DESC?=		Berkeley DB 1.85 support
 BOOST_DESC?=		Boost support
 BZIP2_DESC?=		bzip2 compression support
-CACA_DESC?=		libcaca support
+CACA_DESC?=		libcaca graphics library support
 CAIRO_DESC?=		Cairo graphic library support
 CARES_DESC?=		Asynchronous DNS resolution via c-ares
-CDDA2WAV_DESC?=		cdda2wav CD ripper
+CDDA2WAV_DESC?=		cdda2wav CD ripper support
 CDDB_DESC?=		CDDB support
 CDIO_DESC?=		CDIO support using libcdio
-CDPARANOIA_DESC?=	cdparanoia CD ripper
+CDPARANOIA_DESC?=	cdparanoia CD ripper support
 CELT_DESC?=		CELT audio codec support
 CFITSIO_DESC?=		FITS support via CFITSIO
-COMPOSITE_DESC?=	X11 Composite extension
-CUE_DESC?=		Support embedded cue sheets
+COMPOSITE_DESC?=	X11 Composite extension support
+CUE_DESC?=		Embedded CUE sheets support
 CUPS_DESC?=		CUPS printing support
 CURL_DESC?=		cURL support
-DAGRAB_DESC?=		dagrab CD ripper
+DAGRAB_DESC?=		dagrab CD ripper support
 DATA_DESC?=		Install data files
 DBM_DESC?=		DBM support
 DBUS_DESC?=		D-Bus support
 DCA_DESC?=		DTS support using libdca
-DCRAW_DESC?=		dcraw support
+DCRAW_DESC?=		dcraw (raw image converter) support
 DEBUG_DESC?=		Install debug symbols
-DEVD_DESC?=		Install devd files
+DEVD_DESC?=		Install devd(8) files
 DIRAC_DESC?=		Dirac support using libdirac
-DOCS_DESC?=		Build and install the documentation
-DOXYGEN_DESC?=		Build documentation with doxygen
+DOCS_DESC?=		Build and install documentation
+DOXYGEN_DESC?=		Build documentation with Doxygen
 DV_DESC?=		libDV support
 DVDCSS_DESC?=		libdvdcss support
-ECW_DESC?=		ECW support
-ESOUND_DESC?=		Esound sound server support
-EXAMPLES_DESC?=		Build and install the examples
-EXPAT_DESC?=		Expat support
+ECW_DESC?=		ECW image format support
+ESOUND_DESC?=		EsounD sound server support
+EXAMPLES_DESC?=		Build and install examples
+EXPAT_DESC?=		Expat library support
 FAAC_DESC?=		FAAC encoder support
-FAAD_DESC?=		FAAD aac decoder support
+FAAD_DESC?=		FAAD AAC decoder support
 FAM_DESC?=		File Alteration Monitor support
 FASTCGI_DESC?=		FastCGI support
-FFMPEG_DESC?=		Support FFMPEG (wma aiff ac3 ape...)
+FFMPEG_DESC?=		FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...)
 FFTW_DESC?=		Discrete Fourier Transform support
-FLAC_DESC?=		FLAC support
-FONTCONFIG_DESC?=	Font configuration API for X
-FPECTL_DESC?=		floating point exception handling
-FPX_DESC?=		Flashpix support
-FREETDS_DESC?=		FreeTDS support
-FREETYPE_DESC?=		TrueType font rendering engine
+FLAC_DESC?=		FLAC audio codec support
+FONTCONFIG_DESC?=	X11 font configuration support
+FPECTL_DESC?=		Floating point exception handling
+FPX_DESC?=		FlashPix image format support
+FREETDS_DESC?=		FreeTDS library support
+FREETYPE_DESC?=		TrueType font rendering support
 FREI0R_DESC?=		Frei0r video plugins support
-FUSE_DESC?=		Fuse support
-GCONF_DESC?=		gconf backend
-GD_DESC?=		gd (graphics library) support
-GDBM_DESC?=		GNU dbm support
+FUSE_DESC?=		FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support
+GCONF_DESC?=		GConf backend support
+GD_DESC?=		GD graphics library support
+GDBM_DESC?=		GNU dbm library support
 GDM_DESC?=		Build GDM login manager
 GEOIP_DESC?=		GeoIP support
 GEOS_DESC?=		GEOS support
-GEOTIFF_DESC?=		GeoTIFF support
+GEOTIFF_DESC?=		GeoTIFF file format support
 GGI_DESC?=		General Graphics Interface support
-GIF_DESC?=		GIF support
-GLADE_DESC?=		Glade interface support
-GMP_DESC?=		GMP support
+GIF_DESC?=		GIF image format support
+GLADE_DESC?=		Glade interface builder support
+GMP_DESC?=		GMP (multiple precision arithmetic) support
 GNOME_DESC?=		GNOME Desktop support
 GNOMEVFS2_DESC?=	GnomeVFS2 support
 GNUPG_DESC?=		GNU Privacy Guard support
-GNUPLOT_DESC?=		Plotting using gnuplot
+GNUPLOT_DESC?=		Plotting support using gnuplot
 GNUTLS_DESC?=		SSL/TLS support via GnuTLS
-GOGO_DESC?=		gogo mp3 encoder
+GOGO_DESC?=		GOGO MP3 encoder
 GPERFTOOLS_DESC?=	Google gperftools support
 GRAPHMAGICK_DESC?=	GraphicsMagick support
 GRAPHVIZ_DESC?=		Graphviz support
 GRASS_DESC?=		GRASS support
 GSM_DESC?=		GSM codec support
 GSSAPI_DESC?=		GSSAPI support
-GSTREAMER_DESC?=	Multimedia support
-GTK1_DESC?=		GTK1 gui toolkit support
-GTK2_DESC?=		GTK2 gui toolkit support
-GTK3_DESC?=		GTK3 gui toolkit support
-GUI_DESC?=		GUI support
-GUILE_DESC?=		Guile support
+GSTREAMER_DESC?=	Multimedia support with GStreamer
+GTK1_DESC?=		GTK+1 GUI toolkit support
+GTK2_DESC?=		GTK+2 GUI toolkit support
+GTK3_DESC?=		GTK+3 GUI toolkit support
+GUI_DESC?=		GUI (Graphical User Interface) support
+GUILE_DESC?=		Guile extension language support
 GVFS_DESC?=		Remote access support
-H323_DESC?=		H323 support
+H323_DESC?=		H.323 support
 HAL_DESC?=		HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) support
 HDF5_DESC?=		HDF-5 support
 HTTPD_DESC?=		Support for httpd output streaming
 ICONS_DESC?=		Icons theme
-ICONV_DESC?=		ICONV support
+ICONV_DESC?=		Encoding conversion support via iconv
 ID3_DESC?=		ID3 tags support
-ID3TAG_DESC?=		Support ID3 v1/v2 tags
+ID3TAG_DESC?=		ID3 v1/v2 tags support
 IDN_DESC?=		International Domain Names support
 IMAGEMAGICK_DESC?=	ImageMagick support
 IMLIB_DESC?=		imlib image library support
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ IMLIB2_DESC?=		imlib2 image library supp
 IODBC_DESC?=		ODBC backend via iODBC
 IPV6_DESC?=		IPv6 support
 JABBER_DESC?=		Jabber support
-JACK_DESC?=		Support JACK audio server
+JACK_DESC?=		JACK audio server support
 JASPER_DESC?=		JPEG 2000 support via JasPer
 JAVA_DESC?=		JAVA platform support
-JBIG_DESC?=		JBIG support
-JHEAD_DESC?=		jhead support
-JPEG_DESC?=		JPEG support
+JBIG_DESC?=		JBIG image format support
+JHEAD_DESC?=		jhead EXIF manipulator support
+JPEG_DESC?=		JPEG image format support
 KDE3_DESC?=		KDE3 Desktop support
 KDE4_DESC?=		KDE4 Desktop support
 KERBEROS_DESC?=		Kerberos support
@@ -136,14 +136,14 @@ KERBEROS4_DESC?=	Kerberos 4 support
 KERBEROS5_DESC?=	Kerberos 5 support
 KML_DESC?=		KML support
 LADSPA_DESC?=		LADSPA audio plugins support
-LAME_DESC?=		lame mp3 encoder support
+LAME_DESC?=		LAME MP3 encoder support
 LASH_DESC?=		LASH audio support
-LASTFM_DESC?=		Support Last.FM stream input
+LASTFM_DESC?=		Last.fm streaming support
 LATEX_DESC?=		LaTeX support
 LCMS2_DESC?=		LCMS2 support
 LDAP_DESC?=		LDAP support
 LDAPS_DESC?=		LDAPS support
-LFS_DESC?=		Large Files Support
+LFS_DESC?=		Large files support
 LIBBLURAY_DESC?=	libbluray support
 LIBEDIT_DESC?=		readline support
 LIBEV_DESC?=		libev support
@@ -155,159 +155,159 @@ LIBRSVG2_DESC?=		librsvg-2 support
 LIBVISUAL_DESC?=	libvisual support
 LIBWMF_DESC?=		libwmf support
 LIBWRAP_DESC?=		TCP wrapper support
-LIBXINE_DESC?=		linxine support
-LIGHTTPD_DESC?=		Lighttpd server
+LIBXINE_DESC?=		libxine support
+LIGHTTPD_DESC?=		Lighttpd server support
 LIRC_DESC?=		LIRC support
-LITE_DESC?=		Reduced features and memory
+LITE_DESC?=		Reduced features and memory footprint
 LQR_DESC?=		Liquid Rescale support
-LUA_DESC?=		LUA support
+LUA_DESC?=		LUA scripting language support
 LZMA_DESC?=		LZMA compression support
-MAD_DESC?=		Mad mp3 decoder support
-MAGICK_DESC?=		ImageMagick Library
-MANPAGES_DESC?=		Build and install man pages
+MAD_DESC?=		MAD MP3 decoder support
+MAGICK_DESC?=		ImageMagick library support
+MANPAGES_DESC?=		Build and install manual pages
 MAPSERVER_DESC?=	Mapserver support
-MDNSRESPONDER_DESC?=	Support Zeroconf through mDNSResponder
-MIKMOD_DESC?=		Support MOD audio format
+MDNSRESPONDER_DESC?=	Zeroconf support through mDNSResponder
+MIKMOD_DESC?=		MOD audio format support
 MIXER_DESC?=		Mixer support
-MJPEGTOOLS_DESC?=	mjpegtools support
+MJPEGTOOLS_DESC?=	MJPEG Tools support
 MMKEYS_DESC?=		Multimedia keys support
-MMS_DESC?=		Support MMS stream input
-MMX_DESC?=		MMX optimized routines
+MMS_DESC?=		MMS stream input support
+MMX_DESC?=		Use MMX optimized routines
 MODPERL_DESC?=		mod_perl support
-MODPLUG_DESC?=		Support MODPLUG decoder
-MOTIF_DESC?=		Motif widget library
-MP3_DESC?=		MP3 support
-MP4_DESC?=		MP4 support
-MPEG2_DESC?=		MPEG2 support via libmpeg2
-MPG123_DESC?=		MPG123 support
-MPLAYER_DESC?=		MPlayer support
+MODPLUG_DESC?=		MODPLUG decoder support
+MOTIF_DESC?=		Motif widget library support
+MP3_DESC?=		MP3 format support
+MP4_DESC?=		MP4 format support
+MPEG2_DESC?=		MPEG-2 support via libmpeg2
+MPG123_DESC?=		MP3 decoding support via mpg123
+MPLAYER_DESC?=		MPlayer media player support
 MPLS_DESC?=		MPLS support
-MPP_DESC?=		Musepack support
+MPP_DESC?=		Musepack audio format support
 MSQL_DESC?=		mSQL backend
 MTP_DESC?=		MTP device support
-MULTIBYTE_DESC?=	multibyte character support
-MUSEPACK_DESC?=		Support MPC audio format
+MULTIBYTE_DESC?=	Multibyte character encoding support
+MUSEPACK_DESC?=		MPC audio format support
 MYSQL_DESC?=		MySQL backend
 MYSQL_JDBC_DESC?=	JDBC connection to MySQL databases
 NAS_DESC?=		Network Audio System support
-NETCDF_DESC?=		NetCDF support
-NETPBM_DESC?=		netpbm support
+NETCDF_DESC?=		NetCDF data format support
+NETPBM_DESC?=		Netpbm toolkit support
 NLS_DESC?=		Native Language Support via gettext
-NOTIFY_DESC?=		startup notification support
+NOTIFY_DESC?=		Startup notification support
 NTLM_DESC?=		NTLM authentication support
 NUMPY_DESC?=		NumPy support
 ODBC_DESC?=		ODBC backend
-ODF_DESC?=		ODF support
+ODF_DESC?=		ODF file support
 OPENAL_DESC?=		OpenAL support
 OPENCV_DESC?=		OpenCV support
 OPENEXR_DESC?=		HDR support via OpenEXR
 OPENGL_DESC?=		OpenGL support
 OPENJPEG_DESC?=		Enhanced JPEG graphics support
-OPENMP_DESC?=		parallel processing support
+OPENMP_DESC?=		Parallel processing support
 OPENSSL_DESC?=		SSL/TLS support via OpenSSL
-OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS_DESC?=	compilation optimizations
-ORACLE_DESC?=		Oracle support
+OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS_DESC?=	Use compiler optimizations
+ORACLE_DESC?=		Oracle database support
 ORACLE_JDBC_DESC?=	JDBC connection to Oracle databases
-OSD_DESC?=		On-Screen-Display support
+OSD_DESC?=		On-screen display support
 OSS_DESC?=		Open Sound System support
 PAM_DESC?=		PAM support
 PANGO_DESC?=		Pango rendering library support
 PCRE_DESC?=		Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
-PDF_DESC?=		PDF support
+PDF_DESC?=		PDF document support
 PERL_DESC?=		Perl scripting language support
-PGO_DESC?=		Profile-Guided Optimization
+PGO_DESC?=		Use Profile-Guided Optimization
 PGSQL_DESC?=		PostgreSQL backend
 PGSQL_JDBC_DESC?=	JDBC connection to PostgreSQL databases
 PHP_DESC?=		PHP binding/support
-PIXBUF_DESC?=		gdk-pixbuf support
-PNG_DESC?=		PNG support
-POPPLER_DESC?=		PDF and PS support
-PORTAUDIO_DESC?=	PortAudio support
-POSTGIS_DESC?=		postgis support
+PIXBUF_DESC?=		GDK-PixBuf library support
+PNG_DESC?=		PNG image format support
+POPPLER_DESC?=		PDF and PS file support
+PORTAUDIO_DESC?=	PortAudio library support
+POSTGIS_DESC?=		PostGIS support
 PRINT_DESC?=		Printer support
 PROFILE_DESC?=		Profiling library support
-PROJ_DESC?=		PROJ.4 support 
+PROJ_DESC?=		PROJ.4 support
 PROXY_DESC?=		Proxy support
 PTH_DESC?=		Use GNU Pth for threading/multiprocessing
-PULSEAUDIO_DESC?=	Support PulseAudio sound server
-PYMALLOC_DESC?=		python's internal malloc
+PULSEAUDIO_DESC?=	PulseAudio sound server support
+PYMALLOC_DESC?=		Use Python's internal malloc
 PYTHON_DESC?=		Python binding/support
 QUICKTIME_DESC?=	QuickTime support
-QT4_DESC?=		Qt4 gui toolkit support
+QT4_DESC?=		Qt4 toolkit support
 RADIUS_DESC?=		RADIUS support
 RAW_DESC?=		RAW support
 RESIN3_DESC?=		Resin 3.x support
-RTMP_DESC?=		RTMP support via librtmp
+RTMP_DESC?=		RTMP protocol support via librtmp
 RUBY_DESC?=		Ruby binding/support
-SAMPLERATE_DESC?=	Support sample rate conversion
+SAMPLERATE_DESC?=	Sample rate conversion support
 SASL_DESC?=		SASL support
 SCHROEDINGER_DESC?=	Dirac support using libschroedinger
 SCIPY_DESC?=		SciPy support
-SDL_DESC?=		Simple Direct Madia Layer support
+SDL_DESC?=		Simple Direct Media Layer support
 SEM_DESC?=		POSIX semaphores support
 SHOUTCAST_DESC?=	Ogg Icecast and SHOUTcast support
-SIMD_DESC?=		Use cpu-specific optimizations if possible
+SIMD_DESC?=		Use CPU-specific optimizations
 SMB_DESC?=		SMB protocol support
-SNAPPY_DESC?=		Snappy support
+SNAPPY_DESC?=		Snappy compressing library support
 SNDFILE_DESC?=		libsndfile support
-SNMP_DESC?=		SNMP support
+SNMP_DESC?=		SNMP protocol support
 SPANDSP_DESC?=		Spandsp faxing support
 SPEEX_DESC?=		Speex audio format support
 SQL_DESC?=		SQL database backend
 SQLITE_DESC?=		SQLite backend
-SSE_DESC?=		SSE optimized routines
+SSE_DESC?=		Use SSE optimized routines
 SSH_DESC?=		SSH support
 SSL_DESC?=		SSL support
 STATIC_DESC?=		Build static executable/libraries
-SVG_DESC?=		SVG image support
+SVG_DESC?=		SVG image format support
 SVGALIB_DESC?=		SVGA graphics support
 SVN_DESC?=		Subversion support
-SZIP_DESC?=		Szip support
+SZIP_DESC?=		Szip compression support
 TCL_DESC?=		Tcl scripting language support
-TCLTK_DESC?=		Tcl/Tk support
+TCLTK_DESC?=		Tcl/Tk toolkit support
 THEORA_DESC?=		Ogg Theora support
 THREADS_DESC?=		Threading support
-TIDY_DESC?=		tidy html cleaner support
-TIFF_DESC?=		TIFF support
-TINYXML_DESC?=		XML Parser support via TinyXML
+TIDY_DESC?=		Tidy HTML cleaner support
+TIFF_DESC?=		TIFF image format support
+TINYXML_DESC?=		XML parser support via TinyXML
 TK_DESC?=		Tk toolkit support
 TLS_DESC?=		TLS support
 TOMCAT5_DESC?=		Tomcat 5.x support
 TOMCAT6_DESC?=		Tomcat 6.x support
 TOMCAT7_DESC?=		Tomcat 7.x support
-TREMOR_DESC?=		Support Tremor
-UCS2_DESC?=		Unicode UCS-2 support
-UCS4_DESC?=		Unicode UCS-4 support
+TREMOR_DESC?=		Tremor decoder support
+UCS2_DESC?=		Unicode UCS-2 encoding support
+UCS4_DESC?=		Unicode UCS-4 encoding support
 UNIXODBC_DESC?=		ODBC backend via unixODBC
-UNZIP_DESC?=		UnZip support
+UNZIP_DESC?=		UnZip compression support
 UPNP_DESC?=		UPnP support
-UTF8_DESC?=		UTF-8 support
-VAAPI_DESC?=		VAAPI support
-VDPAU_DESC?=		VDPAU support
+UTF8_DESC?=		UTF-8 encoding support
+VAAPI_DESC?=		VAAPI (GPU video acceleration) support
+VDPAU_DESC?=		VDPAU (GPU video acceleration) support
 VO_AACENC_DESC?=	AAC audio encoding using vo-aacenc
 VO_AMRWBENC_DESC?=	AMR Wide Band encoding using vo-amrwbenc
-VORBIS_DESC?=		Ogg Vorbis support
-VPX_DESC?=		VP8 video codec
-WAV_DESC?=		Support WAV audio format
-WAVPACK_DESC?=		WavPack support
-WEBP_DESC?=		WebP support
-WEBSERVER_DESC?=	Build Internal Webserver
+VORBIS_DESC?=		Ogg Vorbis codec support
+VPX_DESC?=		VP8 video codec support
+WAV_DESC?=		WAV audio format support
+WAVPACK_DESC?=		WavPack audio format support
+WEBP_DESC?=		WebP image format support
+WEBSERVER_DESC?=	Build internal webserver
 WMF_DESC?=		Windows Metafile support
-WXGTK_DESC?=		WxGTK gui toolkit
-X11_DESC?=		X11 support
-X264_DESC?=		H264 video codec using x264
-XALAN_DESC?=		Xalan support
+WXGTK_DESC?=		wxGTK GUI toolkit support
+X11_DESC?=		X11 support (graphics)
+X264_DESC?=		H.264 video codec using x264
+XALAN_DESC?=		Xalan XSLT processor support
 XCURSOR_DESC?=		Cursor themes support
-XERCES_DESC?=		Xerces support
-XFT_DESC?=		Xft support
-XINERAMA_DESC?=		X11 Xinerama Extension support
+XERCES_DESC?=		Xerces XML parser support
+XFT_DESC?=		Xft font library support
+XINERAMA_DESC?=		X11 Xinerama extension support
 XKLAVIER_DESC?=		Keyboard layout settings
 XML_DESC?=		XML Parser support
 XPM_DESC?=		XPM pixmaps support
-XRANDR_DESC?=		Xrandr support
-XSPF_DESC?=		XSPF support
-XVID_DESC?=		xvid mpeg4 video codec
-XVIDEO_DESC?=		X Video Extension library
-XVMC_DESC?=		XvMC support
-YAML_DESC?=		YAML support
-ZLIB_DESC?=		ZLIB support
+XRANDR_DESC?=		X11 XRandR extension support
+XSPF_DESC?=		XSPF playlist format support
+XVID_DESC?=		Xvid MPEG-4 video codec support
+XVIDEO_DESC?=		X11 Video extension library support
+XVMC_DESC?=		X11 XvMC video extension support
+YAML_DESC?=		YAML format support
+ZLIB_DESC?=		ZLIB compression support



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