Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:01:05 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FDP and compound words Message-ID: <20120729090105.GA1946@emphyrio.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207280914420.93633@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207241758220.63105@wonkity.com> <20120728123952.GA1989@emphyrio.blackend.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207280914420.93633@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:45:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 06:00:01PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> > >> I propose changing the FDP recommendations for the two-word versions > >> above to the single-word versions. > >> > >> Statistics from SGML files in /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: > >> > >> 628 "file system", 513 "filesystem" > >> 28 "disk label", 65 "disklabel" > >> 50 "mail server", 3 "mailserver" > >> 56 "name server", 21 "nameserver" > >> 74 "web server", 13 "webserver" > >> > > > > You forgot to add manual pages, which should change the results for the > > first two versions. > > For /usr/share/man: > 2828 "file system", 368 "filesystem" > 34 "disk label", 64 "disklabel" > 2 "mail server", 0 "mailserver" > 239 "name server", 49 "nameserver" > 12 "web server", 2 "webserver" > > Combined totals: > > file system: 3456 filesystem: 881 > disk label: 62 disklabel: 129 > mail server: 52 mailserver: 3 > name server: 295 nameserver: 70 > web server: 86 webserver: 15 > Ok, the results are interesting but to be totally useful these results should be dated, I mean some results may be different according to the number of revisions of a file, the date of the changes and the author. It's quite impossible to check that. > > This was discussed in past (long time ago) on this list and we ended (if > > my memories are Ok) with what is currently on our wordlist. > > That was brought up on IRC, so I did some searching for references and > precedents: > > 2004 freebsd-doc thread > http://markmail.org/message/ycaghgqrfa7roi4n#query:+page:1+mid:dmwddt3vhii6qu4h+state:results > I did not check the thread and the archives but I think (again, it's my memories, not so reliable) we discussed it before 2004. > Marshal Kirk McKusik's Usenix 2003: "Enhancements to the Fast Filesystem" > http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/mckusick/mckusick.pdf > > 2002 PR adding "file system" to the word list > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42256 > It's from 2002, so it seems to confirm what I said above. > The O'Reilly word list uses "filesystem" > http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html Well till now, my comments do not help. I just think that we have some FreeBSD specific wordings/habits/etc., we should change them only if we have a "very good" reason. Now the problem is to define a "very good" reason :) Regarding "disk label/disklabel" I think the use of "disk label" was to avoid confusion with the disklabel(8) command. -- Marc
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