Date: 30 Jun 2003 07:24:35 -0700 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Subject: Re: loader(8) manpage Message-ID: <jzznjzy76k.njz@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030629205824.GC19258@unixpages.org> References: <20030627055607.D64884@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <20030629205824.GC19258@unixpages.org>
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> > patible Forth interpreter based on ficl, by John Sadler. > > ^^^^ > > > > Shouldn't this be uppercased? > > > > Done, thanks for the submission! (I sent e-mail about this last week, but I see it didn't get through. I'll try again, but my ISP changed my e-address today, so...) Apparently, niether "ficl" or "FICL" is correct. According to "http://ficl.sourceforge.net/", it's a capitalized name derived from "Forth Inspired Command Language", so it really should be "Ficl", which is confirmed by observing that casing throughout the first page of a google search. It seems that "Ficl" should be considered to be the name of a "library", but it not clear to me what macro should be used on it. (Certainly not the "library name" macro. :) Since I usually read man pages is plain text (withing Xemacs), I'd be happing if the names of most things were surrounded by double quotes like "Ficl", but I see lots of names in bold or italics or UPPERCASE or underlined or `ugly quotes'. As if people knew the distinctions and found them useful. So "ficl" and "FICL" both should be changed in the "loader" manpage.home | help
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