Re: Documentation typos - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Documentation typos
Date
Msg-id 1129225691.8718.108.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Documentation typos  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Documentation typos  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
Re: Documentation typos  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 12:17 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I don't agree that we need to force one spelling of common words when
> many dictionaries recognise the validity of variant spellings.

There is obviously no "need" to force the use of one spelling variant or
another. However, I think it is good style to consistently use either
American or British English. To pick the first example from Google, the
FreeBSD documentation group do this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style.html

And they face many of the same challenges we do as far as contributors
from different regions of the world.

-Neil



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