Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:24:32 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook Message-ID: <20050215072432.GA57856@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502150858360.8749@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <200502142348.j1ENmeao005098@opensea.mephis.org> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502150858360.8749@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:12:43AM +0800, David Adam wrote: > Hi Jesus, > > Seeing this patch triggered my memory - the issue has been brought up > before. I think we need to examine docs/38225 > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225) first. > > My personal preference is with O'Reilly Publishing's recommendation of > CD-ROM - http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html (see the > word list at the bottom of the page). > > docs/38225 is almost three years old and hasn't been touched for over two > years. Perhaps the doc committers (ceri?) can let us know? > Well, this is a "sensitive" problem that has been massively discussed on -doc in past; for historic reason CDROM has been used in FreeBSD docs (see Walnuts Creek CDs set...). For consistency, it will be a huge work to change every instance of the word in the doc/ tree, and I'm not sure it'll worth the pain, the time, the bits used, etc. Marc
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