From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 28 16:45:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B611106564A; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB55D8FC12; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6SGj5M8094199; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:45:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q6SGj5oZ094196; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:45:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:45:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Marc Fonvieille In-Reply-To: <20120728123952.GA1989@emphyrio.blackend.org> Message-ID: References: <20120728123952.GA1989@emphyrio.blackend.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:45:05 -0600 (MDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FDP and compound words X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:45:12 -0000 On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 06:00:01PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> >> I propose changing the FDP recommendations for the two-word versions >> above to the single-word versions. >> >> Statistics from SGML files in /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: >> >> 628 "file system", 513 "filesystem" >> 28 "disk label", 65 "disklabel" >> 50 "mail server", 3 "mailserver" >> 56 "name server", 21 "nameserver" >> 74 "web server", 13 "webserver" >> > > You forgot to add manual pages, which should change the results for the > first two versions. For /usr/share/man: 2828 "file system", 368 "filesystem" 34 "disk label", 64 "disklabel" 2 "mail server", 0 "mailserver" 239 "name server", 49 "nameserver" 12 "web server", 2 "webserver" Combined totals: file system: 3456 filesystem: 881 disk label: 62 disklabel: 129 mail server: 52 mailserver: 3 name server: 295 nameserver: 70 web server: 86 webserver: 15 > This was discussed in past (long time ago) on this list and we ended (if > my memories are Ok) with what is currently on our wordlist. That was brought up on IRC, so I did some searching for references and precedents: 2004 freebsd-doc thread http://markmail.org/message/ycaghgqrfa7roi4n#query:+page:1+mid:dmwddt3vhii6qu4h+state:results Marshal Kirk McKusik's Usenix 2003: "Enhancements to the Fast Filesystem" http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/mckusick/mckusick.pdf 2002 PR adding "file system" to the word list http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42256 The O'Reilly word list uses "filesystem" http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html