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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
Cc: 35885@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:59:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s009hxa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <130c7584-e2ad-d521-d468-4119d462583a@gmail.com> (message from Sebastian Urban on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:32:36 +0200)

> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
> Cc: 35885@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:32:36 +0200
> 
> So, in 2., 3., 4., 5., 6.(1st), we have pattern of "negative argument
> -N ... something N something..."
> 
> In 1. it's something similar but without '-N' just "negative
> argument", also 6.(2nd) is something similar but 'N' doesn't have
> minus sign.
> 
> But in 7. and 8. (and the one I already sent) we have "if N is
> negative... something -N something".
> 
> So, after looking at more examples, I think the best idea would be to
> go with the most used pattern, therefore:
>     - add '-N' to 1.,
>     - add minus sign do 6.(2nd),
>     - replace - in 7., 8., and the one I sent - "if N is negative"
>       with "with negative argument -N" then change '-N' to 'N' in the
>       rest of each sentence.
> 
> There is also a problem of minus sign, or to simply put - lack of it
> in 3. and 6.(1st) and the one I sent - there we can see "hyphen-minus"
> (#x2d).  In other cases it is "minus sign" (#x2212).

I fixed the inconsistencies with the minus sign vs hyphen.  As for the
few examples saying "if N is negative <do something> −N times": sorry,
I cannot see anything wrong with such wording, so I left those few
examples alone.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-24 15:59 bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals) Sebastian Urban
2019-06-02 22:50 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-03 16:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-04 10:48     ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-04 15:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-05 10:40         ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-05 16:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06  9:49             ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-06 21:19               ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-09  8:31                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09  8:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-10 10:30                 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-10 17:01                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 10:32                     ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-11 16:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-12  8:44                         ` Sebastian Urban
2019-06-12 13:25                           ` Drew Adams
2019-06-03 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-10 20:02 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-13  9:11   ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-13 13:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 14:06       ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-13 14:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-14  0:01           ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-15 13:18   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-15 13:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-15 13:52       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-15 14:11     ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-16 11:16       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-16 13:00         ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-18 14:54           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-18 15:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 10:15               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19  8:44             ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-19 10:19               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19 12:14                 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-20 12:44                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 13:35                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 18:24                     ` Sebastian Urban
2020-08-22  7:20                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 10:19                         ` Sebastian Urban
2020-10-19 18:52                           ` Sebastian Urban
2021-05-12 14:47                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-13 11:48                             ` Sebastian Urban
2021-05-16 13:30                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-18  9:17                                 ` Sebastian Urban
2021-05-18 13:15                                   ` bug#42199: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2019-06-10 17:44                     ` Drew Adams

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