From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Typos in the manual
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:33:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tyg23ng4.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CD9C67CCD06C84-1538-39C4@webmail-d017.sysops.aol.com> (Mark Harig's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:13:36 -0500")
On Thu 17 Feb 2011 04:13, Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com> writes:
> Here are the relevant rules that I learned years ago. They are
> followed by some examples from the Emacs manual (which also contains
> many examples that do not follow these rules).
A very interesting discussion! At first read, your rules about em
dashes and semicolons and i.e. and e.g. all sounded very strident to me,
but then your examples support your points well -- the texts evince the
rules. To my untrained eye and irreverent hand, anyway.
So... roll on, Guile manual, roll on? Hopefully you and Neil will fall
into a state of mental synchronization, so that we do productive work on
the manual. Though if you get too synchronized we list-readers will
lose the benefit of these digressions :)
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://wingolog.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 20:25 Typos in the manual Ralf Wildenhues
2011-02-13 0:49 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-13 7:00 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2011-02-13 22:29 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-15 15:48 ` Marijn
2011-02-15 20:21 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-15 23:55 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-16 0:52 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-16 22:37 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-15 23:49 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-15 20:48 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-15 21:14 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2011-02-15 22:32 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-16 0:14 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-16 2:43 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-16 3:30 ` Francis Southern
2011-02-16 23:46 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-16 3:03 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-16 8:18 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-02-17 0:10 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-17 1:21 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-16 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-02-17 0:14 ` Neil Jerram
2011-02-17 3:13 ` Mark Harig
2011-02-17 11:33 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-02-21 20:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-19 17:40 Bruno Haible
2011-02-19 17:56 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2011-02-24 23:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
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