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From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Definite article in synopsis
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:59:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921105951.GA22975@jocasta.intra> (raw)

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I thought we had a policy that the synopsis field must not 
start with an article.  

However running 
	grep 'synopsis  *"The'  *.scm

shows that we have many instances where this policy is
not followed.

Or have I   misunderstood something?

J'

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-09-21 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-21 10:59 John Darrington [this message]
2016-09-23  0:15 ` Definite article in synopsis Leo Famulari
2016-09-23  0:32   ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-23  5:10     ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-24  2:28       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-24  2:53         ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-23  4:53   ` John Darrington

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