Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:51:48 -0700 From: "Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou@cox.net> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface) Message-ID: <20040825175148.GC64419@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040825181544.GJ37255@submonkey.net> References: <200408250710.i7P7AZOY085264@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040825093530.GA22838@eborcom.com> <20040825134912.GD6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040825144615.GH37255@submonkey.net> <20040825181544.GJ37255@submonkey.net>
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--MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:15:44PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:46:16PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > > > > > > > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so > > > > we should consider 'travelled' a typo. > > > > > > This is one of the harder ones to nail down. Most of the American/English > > > spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for > > > this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing. > > > > > > I went through this a couple months ago with Ceri for "labeled" versus > > > "labelled" - both seem to be tolerated widely. It's hard to decide > > > on "one central authority" to help with determining what's right. > > > > > > That said, is there something we could as a project decide is close > > > enough to being a central authority? Properties of such a thing would > > > be easy accesibility (preferrably for free :-) on a global basis since > > > we have lots of people all over the world contributing to the primary > > > American-ese docs. Having something like that could help avoid a lot > > > of bikesheds-to-be... :-) > > > > The Chicago Manual of Style covers which word to use in these cases, and > > I will check it when I get home. > > It seems that I'm mistaken; there is no such list in my CMS. I was > thinking of Scriptorium: > http://www.scriptorium.com/Standards/probhome.html#HEADING27 > > Also, "traveled" is the canonical term according to Webster's, so we > should go with that. Good. I will attach a patch for this. Thanks. -- Jesus R. Camou <jcamou@COX.net> --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="preface1.diff" Index: preface.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -r1.24 preface.sgml --- preface.sgml 25 Aug 2004 07:13:36 -0000 1.24 +++ preface.sgml 25 Aug 2004 18:48:54 -0000 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ to explore, and the ability to take on board new concepts as they are introduced.</para> - <para>Once you have travelled this far, the second, far larger, + <para>Once you have traveled this far, the second, far larger, section of the Handbook is a comprehensive reference to all manner of topics of interest to FreeBSD system administrators. Some of these chapters may recommend that you do some prior reading, and --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--
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