Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:14:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Spelling (was: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 adv.4 adw.4 ahb.4 bt.4 netgraph.4 ng_tty.4) Message-ID: <20010826111434.N21776@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010826012453.E44493E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 06:24:48PM -0700 References: <20010826104750.L21776@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010826012453.E44493E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Saturday, 25 August 2001 at 18:24:48 -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> On Friday, 24 August 2001 at 9:09:37 +0000, Joseph Mallett wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:45:37PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 14:58:38 -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: >>>>> dd 2001/08/23 14:58:38 PDT >>>>> >>>>> Modified files: >>>>> share/man/man4 adv.4 adw.4 ahb.4 bt.4 netgraph.4 >>>>> ng_tty.4 >>>>> Log: >>>>> Spelling police: queueing -> queuing >>>>> >>>>> PR: 29985 >>>>> Submitted by: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xMach.org> >>>> >>>> The PR is wrong on this count, both spellings are correct. >>>> >>>> Check www.m-w.com. >>>> >>> >>> It's nice if you can keep manpages somewhat consistent, and ispell lists >>> this as the correct spelling. >> >> I thought we had long ago agreed not to change correct spellings, even >> if others might prefer a different correct spelling. > > That may be a good rule of thumb, It was also a thing we agreed to. > but it looks bad when half the documents use one spelling, and > another half use the other. That's a matter of personal taste, I suppose. > The doc team (mostly murray and others from WinDriver working on the > Handbook) seems to have taken up the practice of using whichever > spelling appears the most and changing the rest. That will probably change the spelling of the Handbook to be different from that used in "The Complete FreeBSD". > 'queueing' outnumbers 'queuing', at least in share/man4. I really think that the documentation could benefit more from higher-level changes than these. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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