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From Leslie S Satenstein
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: remove tags.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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it appears that PDF files need no reformatting, and that it is ok to allow long command lines to be truncated by the right margins, or even better, that pronouns that refer back to a noun, are not specific enough.  One has to stop and think, --- to which noun is "this" (a pronoun) referring to.

I am not challenging the technical content, which I have found to be precise, but only that someone should proof read text to ensure good grammar.

No real improvement between pdf version 9.02 and 9.03, after I reported some issues with the former.

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--- On Mon, 2/7/11, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: remove tags.
To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "PostgreSQL-documentation" <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: Monday, February 7, 2011, 10:54 AM

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> >>> remove tags.
> >> >
> >> >> Sorry, vague commit message (I forgot squash).
> >> >
> >> >> Can I will use git ammend to improve this message?
> >>
> >> Absolutely not.
> >>
> >> > How about git revert, instead? ?It's not apparent to me that these
> >> > changes were improvements.
> >>
> >> I'll buy that one.
> >
> > [ ?CC to docs, committers removed. ]
> >
> > Well, if we want to revert, then we have to add <literal> to all the
> > numbers used in our docs --- there was no logic in what we previously
> > had. ?Do we want that?
> >
> > Here is an example line I did not change:
> >
> > ? an otherwise idle connection. ?A value of 0 uses the system default.
> >
> > Do we want that 0 to appear in a fixed-width font via <literal>?
> > It is easy to do but we should decide.
>
> [ removing -hackers from CC also, no need to cross-post ]
>
> Hmm.  I'm starting to lean toward leaving this as you have it.
>
> Which way did we more commonly do it before you applied this patch?

It was mostly like the line I have above, meaning it was not in
fixed-width font, 95% I would say.  I modified 19 to be like the rest.
I left <literal> where the context made sense.

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