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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:28:19 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mdoc(7) questionnaire (was: Re: trailing dot in .Nd)
Message-ID:  <20010123162819.C29189@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010123164227.A4978@ark.cris.net>
References:  <20010122175432.A31943@sunbay.com> <20010122185304.B25101@comp.leeds.ac.uk> <20010123101530.A98532@sunbay.com> <20010123164227.A4978@ark.cris.net>

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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. :-)

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


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