From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man-pages.7: STYLE GUIDE: Mention UNIX for Beginners
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:37:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b9d903-74ce-9bbc-45d9-4e890cefeff2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220610122111.2k5jkzgo2k5odpbf@illithid>
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Hi Branden!
On 6/10/22 14:21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-06-10T12:51:41+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> +also contains an interesting section on "Hints for Preparing Documents".
>
> I would use real (typographer's) quotation marks to cite the section
> title, and since you are doing so, that's what the section _is_ even
> more than what it's _on_.
>
> Thus,
>
> also contains an interesting section,
> \[lq]Hints for Preparing Documents\[rq].
>
> I would also find a more specific adjective than
> "interesting"--"helpful", "noteworthy", "exemplary" are all
> possibilities.
Sure! Thanks.
BTW, is the [2nd ed., BWK] thingy correct? I did it from memory.
Cheers,
Alex
>
> Regards,
> Branden
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-10 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-10 10:51 [PATCH] man-pages.7: STYLE GUIDE: Mention UNIX for Beginners Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-10 12:21 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-06-10 14:37 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2022-06-18 15:58 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-06-18 22:04 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-10 15:29 ` [PATCH v2] " Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-10 13:55 ` [PATCH] " Peter Xu
2022-06-10 14:38 ` Alejandro Colomar
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