Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:18:57 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20010721001857.A11733@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010720143228.F52179@meow.osd.bsdi.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:32:28PM -0700 References: <200107202109.f6KL9dk93634@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010720231513.A11170@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720143228.F52179@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:32:28PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:15:13PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I think this is English versus US-English spelling. Does the project > > have a standard here (US versus the Queens English I mean) ? > > Unfortunately the Handbook is our largest document, so standardizing > on one will piss of the most people. I think we should stay away from > any overall project standards and just let authors spell things how > they choose. This only falls apart in our very large documents with > many authors such as the Handbook. US-English is much more common > throughout the Handbook, so I told Chern he could change a couple of > English words to be consistent. Many words in the Handbook aren't No problem, it was just that I was curious. > spelled consistently in the same paragraph, much less throughout the > entire book, and thats what we're trying to fix. My curiosity has been satisfied, thanks, -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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