From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>, 39778@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39778: [PATCH] checkdoc: Don't mistake "cf." for sentence end
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 07:49:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aabe857-71d1-4509-9794-f53697f824c9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e0aambr.fsf@gmail.com>
> "Cf." is a common abbreviation in documentation.
>
> Currently checkdoc warns about lack of double space after "cf." or
> "Cf.". The attached patch adds an exception similar to the already
> handled "eg." and and "ie.".
Yes.
But even better is to remove uses of "Cf." (which
is not so common nowadays, and is understood by
fewer and fewer readers). It can typically be
replaced by something as simple as "Compare" or
sometimes even just "See also".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 12:22 bug#39778: [PATCH] checkdoc: Don't mistake "cf." for sentence end Štěpán Němec
2020-02-25 15:49 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-02-25 16:02 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-02-25 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-25 16:41 ` Bastien
2020-02-25 21:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-25 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-26 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2020-02-26 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2020-03-10 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-10 13:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-28 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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