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Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:20:45 +0100 (CET)

>> Cf. this message on the TeXLive mailing list.
>> 
>>   https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-November/042697.html
> 
> I only mention this because it's an error that has crept into our
> documentation before (and which I've fixed).
> 
> "Cf." means "compare" (Latin: "confere").  People seem to use it as if
> it were a synonym of "q.v." ("quod vide" -> *"which see"), but it is
> not.

Ah, this is a Germanism then – I indeed meant `compare'
(`vergleiche')!  We also have `siehe' (q.v.), which can be used
synonymously in this case, but obviously not in English.


    Werner

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