Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:45:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FDP and compound words Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207280914420.93633@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120728123952.GA1989@emphyrio.blackend.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207241758220.63105@wonkity.com> <20120728123952.GA1989@emphyrio.blackend.org>
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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
> 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
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
The O'Reilly word list uses "filesystem"
http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html
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