From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 26 8:30: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37DB37B403 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 08:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4QFU3N57988; Sun, 26 May 2002 08:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205261530.g4QFU3N57988@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Marc Fonvieille Subject: Re: docs/38571: A typo in cvsup-advanced article Reply-To: Marc Fonvieille Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/38571; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Fonvieille To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/38571: A typo in cvsup-advanced article Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 17:20:47 +0200 On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:01:32PM +0200, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > As far as the 'typo' is concerned, I did it on purpose: I actually meant to > reproduce a 'Freudian' lapsus (lapsus calami), i.e. reproduce the process of > writing something and then making corrections (^W: delete a word). By the > way, another such 'device' is e.g. ^H to mean you are deleting a letter. > > If the Documentation Project deems this, er, 'stylistic' device acceptable > (for current standards of formality), there will be no need to remove it. On > the other hand, if it sounds too informal, then let it be removed. > I was *1000 miles away* from thinking it was a normal typo :)) I'm currently translating the article in french, i will remove the lapsus cause it's difficult to write/display it efficiently. Maybe in an irc way like "scre** err trouble, i mean" but it's not really good. Btw i will submit a PR about s/eg/e.g. and some quote tags addition etc... Cheers, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message