From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 25 18:44:49 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82EA737B406; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1C0006ACE6; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:14:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:14:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Joseph Mallett , "Kenneth D. Merry" , 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> References: <20010826104750.L21776@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010826012453.E44493E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010826012453.E44493E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 06:24:48PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 25 August 2001 at 18:24:48 -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Greg Lehey 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 >>>> >>>> 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