From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:17:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7gpbav5p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zk27savf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:44:52 +0200")
> 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.
And I think we had better just ignore those differences and move on.
Enforcing such rules is a waste of time.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 15:17 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
2012-11-24 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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
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