From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Typos in the manual Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:33:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87tyg3adcs.fsf@gnu.org> <8CD9C67CCD06C84-1538-39C4@webmail-d017.sysops.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297949165 5974 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 13:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org To: Mark Harig Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 14:25:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq3ri-0005Ld-0T for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:25:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq3rU-0006vR-RM for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:25:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34643 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq3rO-0006t1-2r for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq3rM-0000O8-HQ for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:59379 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq3rM-0000Nc-F2; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8AB3DD1; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:26:36 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=KotnhRf0pbOxRamq8PeaOsucD5A=; b=WzoqCW 1oVN5IJIwc2DunR9Tqtp9KC66mJuAt8vW11VDxuW7wGmyzu7QWaz8FE92qdUK6Ze QyJRQS1rUldqsQHachd5UFw19Ro29MHJkWg7/zQTIO1HYi+JUL/8l+tLMyzwwQy1 D4aEzrbZE5MJoL+UYIhHGnSP64CHzOl9fJvy0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=TX5TQtoeyZxwO8o9iYmzL2KPK2I2bqpn SngoczUsF3C8gPLLVHFDa9muIeHevZ4OT1gXYRkqdWOTgQN0F97akeP0ZPJo+qNm uhbPj6FyxcTg/BApQjaoMjOZawN0Pg7I597/qVoffcsCvdpxiYVCLw2xKTZqxlCy P6vSXP0Usp8= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55AB3DD0; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:26:33 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1920F3DCE; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:26:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8CD9C67CCD06C84-1538-39C4@webmail-d017.sysops.aol.com> (Mark Harig's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:13:36 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 89E4F9D2-3A99-11E0-93B1-AF401E47CF6F-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5169 Archived-At: On Thu 17 Feb 2011 04:13, Mark Harig 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/