From: John Williams <jrw@pobox.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 28790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:34:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdRJLA1N6p-f0c3etJS_kzsE20A3QkBE_V3mb2X8NpD7F9ZAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1e2noB-0006mx-Dn@fencepost.gnu.org>
What about just deleting it in all the places where it adds nothing
because there's already a hyperlink?
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> "This is about foobar, which see" is a customary usage in English.
> Perhaps not used so much nowadays as 50 years ago. People who don't
> know it will have a good chance of figuring it out from the meanings
> of the two words."
>
> As for "q.v.", that is an erudite abbreviation that most people won't know,
> and won't have any way to figure out.
>
> Thus, this change would make the text harder to understand. Please
> don't make this change.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-11 21:22 bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v." John Williams
2017-10-12 1:44 ` Nick Helm
2017-10-12 3:51 ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-14 22:07 ` Glenn Morris
2017-10-14 22:52 ` John Williams
2017-10-15 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-15 0:19 ` João Távora
2017-10-15 1:03 ` John Williams
2017-10-15 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2017-10-16 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2017-10-16 21:47 ` Alan Third
2017-10-15 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-13 0:26 ` bug#28790: " Richard Stallman
2017-10-13 18:34 ` John Williams [this message]
2017-10-13 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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