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Re: Possible Bug in s.tmac (forked from: [Groff] pointsize changes in .N


From: Peter Schaffter
Subject: Re: Possible Bug in s.tmac (forked from: [Groff] pointsize changes in .NH ms-macro)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:48:27 -0400
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004, Werner Lemberg wrote:
> 
> > I note that you changed my spelling of 'initialisation' to
> > 'initialization'.  Personally, I think this Americanised spelling is
> > ugly, but I'm sure that is just because I'm British, and our friends
> > on the west side of the Atlantic would disagree -- in any case, it
> > isn't *really* important.
> 
> Everything in the groff docs use `-zation' instead of `-sation'.  If
> you find something different, just tell me.  We could change
> everything to `-sation', but since groff uses American English
> hyphenation patterns by default, I think it is not the worst choice to
> stay with American English (without using `nite' or `brite', of
> course).

This sounds very much like the Canadian solution to the
British/American spelling problem.  :)

-- 
Peter Schaffter
Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada)




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