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From: Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: mdoc(7) questionnaire (was: Re: trailing dot in .Nd)
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Alexey Zelkin wrote:

>> 2.  Should we consistently change all occurrences of ``.Nm Foo'' to
>>     ``.Nm foo'' where the command name is actually ``foo''?  (YES, NO)
> 
> Yes, of course, but it just should be changed to construction like
> 
> The command/utility/etc
> .Nm

I disagree with this, putting "the ... command" around something is just
unnecessary IMO.  But perhaps grammatical correctness means more to some
people than it does to me. :-)

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Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org


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