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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>,
	"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] xattr.7: wfix
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 19:59:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <05d650dc-231d-f7dd-e32f-9b9bdb6d3807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2ef3b9c-97d1-2733-df27-542c9eacad17@gmail.com>

On 7/30/22 19:53, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> 
> Even when the value of a quantity is used as an adjective, a space is 
> left between the numerical value and the unit symbol.  Only when the 
> name of the unit is spelled out would the  ordinary rules of grammar 
> apply, so that in English a hyphen would be used to separate the number 
> from the unit.

Although, I missed this small paragraph.  According to that, it would be 
255\~bytes but 64\ kB.


-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-30 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-29 11:45 [PATCH 4/6] xattr.7: wfix Štěpán Němec
2022-07-29 20:58 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-07-30 14:15   ` Štěpán Němec
2022-07-30 17:53     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2022-07-30 17:59       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2022-08-01 13:28       ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-11 12:48         ` Ingo Schwarze
2022-08-11 20:17           ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-12 14:30             ` Ingo Schwarze
2022-08-12 22:10               ` *roff `\~` support (was: [PATCH 4/6] xattr.7: wfix) G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-13  4:23                 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-14 14:15                   ` Ingo Schwarze
2022-08-14 22:21                     ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-13 17:27                 ` DJ Chase
2022-08-14 13:56                   ` Standardize roff (was: *roff `\~` support) Ingo Schwarze
2022-08-14 14:49                     ` DJ Chase
2022-08-14 16:32                       ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-14 19:43                         ` DJ Chase
2022-08-15 11:59                           ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-16 11:48                             ` Ingo Schwarze
2022-08-14 22:35                       ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-14 22:58                         ` DJ Chase
2022-08-15  0:20                     ` Sam Varshavchik
2022-08-16 12:52                       ` Standardize roff Ingo Schwarze
2022-08-16 23:46                         ` Sam Varshavchik

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