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/
next prev parent 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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