From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:44:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zk27savf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B06D14.2070104@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:45:40 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> American style guides seem to prefer the commas almost universally.
> British guides are not that way (Fowler 3rd, in particular, says to omit
> comma after i.e.; it says nothing about e.g.). The Emacs manual
> is written in American English, though, not in British English.
It is pointless to argue about personal style preferences.
In any case, in my experience, this kind of changes is quickly made
futile by future changes to the manuals that re-introduce comma-less
e.g. and i.e. back into the text. So if we want to adhere to the
style that prefers the comma, we should IMO install some change that
enforces these rules, to be run at "make info" time and flag any
deviations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-23 19:25 bug#12973: @: overused in manual Paul Eggert
2012-11-23 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 20:50 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-23 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 23:51 ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-23 23:56 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 0:11 ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-24 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-24 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 1:43 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-24 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 2:03 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-24 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 6:45 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-24 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-24 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-24 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-25 0:46 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-25 4:47 ` bug#12973: [TRUNCATED MESSAGE 2692 191817] " Richard Stallman
2012-11-25 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-25 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-26 1:31 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-05 22:31 ` Paul Eggert
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83zk27savf.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=12973@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).