From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Dog food, anyone?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:12:27 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k1xjo9sk.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efnrlml3.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Aloha Nicolas,
Nicolas Goaziou writes:
>> One change that might be made globally is the use of em-dash (---) to
>> set off text, versus en-dash (--) between numerals, e.g. "the range of
>> run times is 1--5 seconds". I've spotted several places where the
>> en-dash is used to set off text. See this web site for the convention
>> on dashes:
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Conventions.html
>
> I think it is a matter of "American English" vs "British English"
> convention. See, e.g., <https://www.gsbe.co.uk/grammar-the-dash.html>.
>
> I consistently used the latter because I find it more aesthetically
> pleasing. As a GNU manual, we can switch to the American English
> convention everywhere. In this case, however, em-dash are not
> spaced-out.
I find the en-dash with spaces more aesthetically pleasing, too.
>
> In the same vein, we also need to use title case. This needs some
> special care as fuzzy links need to be updated accordingly.
>
> WDYT?
Agreed. This is one of the first things we might do if manual.org
becomes the official source of the Org manual.
FYI, Phil Rooke's Documentation_Standards.org suggests title case for
chapter heads and sentence case for section and subsection headings.
> I changed it to
>
> ... by tweaking the header arguments (see [[* Using header
> arguments]]) for compiling...
>
> For more information, see (info "(texinfo) @ref"), last paragraphs.
> N.B.: I suggest to read it in regular info viewer, i.e., "info texinfo"
> from the command line, instead of Emacs to make sense out of this.
Yes, much better.
All the best,
Tom
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Thomas S. Dye
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-19 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-17 10:34 [RFC] Dog food, anyone? Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-17 11:59 ` Vikas Rawal
2017-12-17 18:41 ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-12-17 19:01 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-17 21:58 ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-12-17 23:03 ` Adrian Bradd
2017-12-18 1:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-12-17 23:44 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-18 1:15 ` Vikas Rawal
2017-12-18 1:23 ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-12-17 18:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-12-17 19:27 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-17 18:58 ` [RFC] Official Org manual in Org! (Was: Dog food, anyone?) Kaushal Modi
2017-12-21 8:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-12-21 13:47 ` [RFC] Official Org manual in Org! Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-17 23:10 ` [RFC] Dog food, anyone? Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-18 21:02 ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-12-18 22:04 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-19 0:12 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2017-12-19 19:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-19 20:11 ` Thomas S. Dye
2017-12-19 20:16 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2017-12-19 23:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-20 0:05 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2017-12-20 0:59 ` Thomas S. Dye
[not found] ` <WM!57dfd1c25b2c2af3021c1294841c916968d326cf362c32864a6fbc9615cf19dba6ceadc1960e4c3ef5578687af476fba!@mailhub-mx1.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-12-21 12:58 ` Phillip Lord
2017-12-21 13:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-21 17:26 ` Phillip Lord
2017-12-21 19:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
[not found] ` <WM!3e1c2e8dc2d528e2348759d2a34555337e2f3a5782534bcece582121239ecf030ff1b6d5efd2b2c4955a04c496f00ac6!@mailhub-mx2.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-12-21 22:13 ` Phillip Lord
2017-12-22 18:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-12-23 6:56 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2017-12-23 14:12 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-12-25 1:44 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2018-04-26 23:34 ` Bastien
2018-04-28 10:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-04-28 12:43 ` Bastien
2018-05-09 0:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-05-09 18:16 ` Gregor Zattler
2018-05-09 19:12 ` Nicolas Goaziou
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-09 18:11 Jon Snader
2018-05-10 8:02 ` Neil Jerram
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