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bug#12973: @: overused in manual
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#12973: @: overused in manual |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:45:40 -0800 |
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> maybe wait till there is no active branch.
Yes, it sounds good to wait.
>> Stylistically, I prefer the current form in at least some cases.
> Me too (which isn't surprising, since I wrote some of them ;-).
I got the suggestion of putting a comma after "i.e." and after "e.g."
from RMS, many years ago. RMS's style agrees with that of the
Chicago Manual of Style, the Columbia Guide to Standard American
English, the Lynch Guide to Grammar, and the Blue Book on Grammar
and Punctuation, among others.
American style guides seem to prefer the commas almost universally.
British guides are not that way (Fowler 3rd, in particular, says to omit
comma after i.e.; it says nothing about e.g.). The Emacs manual
is written in American English, though, not in British English.
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, (continued)
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Stephen Berman, 2012/11/23
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/23
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Stephen Berman, 2012/11/23
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/23
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/24
bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Glenn Morris, 2012/11/23
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: [TRUNCATED MESSAGE 2692 191817] bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/24
- bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Glenn Morris, 2012/11/25
bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Glenn Morris, 2012/11/25
bug#12973: @: overused in manual, Glenn Morris, 2012/11/25