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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:10:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb43wra6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idjpouc86sl.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:54:50 +0200")

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-30 15:54 +0300) wrote:

> Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> I noticed some typos and/or missing words when reading parts of the
>> manual.  Instead of leaving it be, I attached a patch to fix them.
>>
>> I don't know how my commit message should look like in this case, so
>> please let me know when it is wrong.
>
> I think the first fix should be this:
>
> -computations (here computations include accesses to the store.)  Values
> +computations (here computations include accesses to the store).  Values
>
> rather than having a period both in and outside the parentheses.

I agree, this looks natural to me, but I heard (from Ludo) that there is
some "typographic school" (or how is it called), that says "(foo.)" is
the correct thing.

That line originally appeared in commit b860f3824¹, and I'm afraid it was
intended to be written that way.

¹ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=b860f382447a360ea2ce8a89d3357279cc652c3a

-- 
Alex

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-30 12:37 [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words Roel Janssen
2016-03-30 12:54 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-30 13:10   ` Roel Janssen
2016-03-30 21:24     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-30 22:10   ` Alex Kost [this message]

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