From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "John Williams" <jrw@pobox.com>, "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: 28790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:31:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d2e2b63-15f9-49b9-b29b-cd20656ebbd2@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdRJLD+hakeVty7hW=nGBwkGkGF+zxL9WqbUerN1NGjG+p=Vg@mail.gmail.com>
> To replace "which see" with something more conventional, I think you'd
> have to re-word the whole sentence in most cases. So like, "See also
> cromulate-frobnicator, which is called by snarf-spavicle in GUI
> environments", as opposed to something like "In GUI environments,
> snarf-spavicle calls cromulate-frobnicator, which see."
Yes, this is true. It is conventional and clear to say
"See XXX for information about YYY." IOW, it's good to
make very clear (a) what you're pointing to and (b) why.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-15 15:31 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
2017-10-13 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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