Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:40:59 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/84851: Misplaced apostrophe in "FreeBSD Porter's Handbook" Message-ID: <ohd5oh5xck.5oh@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200508122114.j7CLEar1052862@freefall.freebsd.org> (Jesus R. Camou's message of "Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:14:36 GMT") References: <200508122114.j7CLEar1052862@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Sorry if you've gotten this before; I have a mailer problem here. Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>Description: > > The title "FreeBSD Porter's Handbook" implies that there is only one > FreeBSD Porter (or at very least, that there is only one Porter who > uses said Handbook). The fact that people will infer that is enough reason to change it, but the title doesn't imply that. The handbook is for each FreeBSD porter; it is a porter's handbook -- and so it may be called The FreeBSD Porter's Handbook. See two similar examples of commercial book titles below. This issue is bikeshed-color issue, unless the FDP has settled on something different, which, based on http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html and (the) "FreeBSD Handbook", it has not. (BTW, these titles should start with "The", IMO.) > From intro(1) manpage: -- "the BSD user environment" Change to "the BSD users' environment"? > From (the) "FreeBSD Handbook": -- "User group" and "Users Groups" Change to "Users' group"? -- "Alpha User's Questions" Change to "Users' Questions"? -- * The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide, published by Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN: 0201704811 A book title -- Can't be changed. -- * Ferraro, Richard F. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-62490-7 A book title -- Can't be changed. Similar arguments have been held for the names of groups of users. Sorry, but a reasonable case could be made for any of these The FreeBSD Porter Handbook The FreeBSD Porters Handbook The FreeBSD Porter's Handbook The FreeBSD Porters' Handbook As if it matters, I like the change, and am just noting that change is not needed and that the title will need to be changed in several documents.
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