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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:19:55 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spelling of ASCII in man pages?
Message-ID:  <19990909081955.Q64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <199909090024.UAA46785@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com>
References:  <199909090024.UAA46785@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com>

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* Stephen J. Roznowski (sjr@home.net) [990909 07:14]:
>I've noticed on several of the man pages that ASCII has various
>spellings: ASCII, Ascii, ascii.
>
>Should these be corrected to ASCII?

Given how anal we are about FreeBSD.org we should prolly be as anal
about this.

The best documentation is consistent. This goes double for contractions.
Contractions in documentation are a BIG no-no.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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