From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 47709@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#47709] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Document 'gnu-build-system' keyword parameters.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:17:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z0rr933.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d9dddc71c70c5449843989515f59ca71720f3f7.camel@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:59:40 +0200")
Hi,
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
> On Sun, 2021-04-11 at 15:46 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> @@ -7307,6 +7307,84 @@ Coreutils, Bash, Make, Diffutils, grep, and sed (see the @code{(guix
>> build-system gnu)} module for a complete list). We call these the
>> @dfn{implicit inputs} of a package, because package definitions do not
>> have to mention them.
>> +
>> +This build system supports a number of keyword arguments, which can be
>> +passed @i{via}
>
> Why the italics? I've heard some people italicise "via" because it's a foreign
> word (from Latin), but I'm not convinced.
Italicizing foreign words is a typographical convention.
> I don't see anyone italicising "broccoli", even though it is Italian
> (going by https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broccoli).
True. :-)
>> +@item #:out-of-source?
>> +This Boolean,
> ‘Boolean’ is miscapitalised.
I don’t think so: it derives from a family name, and my understanding is
that the convention is to capitalize such words; the lower-case variant
“boolean” is definitely widespread, though.
Thanks for taking a look!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-11 13:37 [bug#47709] [PATCH 0/2] Augment build phases and build system doc Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-11 13:46 ` [bug#47709] [PATCH 1/2] doc: Move list of build phases to "Build Phases" Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-11 13:46 ` [bug#47709] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Document 'gnu-build-system' keyword parameters Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-11 14:59 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-12 12:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-04-12 16:45 ` bug#47709: [PATCH 0/2] Augment build phases and build system doc Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-12 16:45 ` [bug#47709] " Ludovic Courtès
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