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From Dmitry Igrishin
Subject Re: Typo.
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Msg-id CAAfz9KOSLojrymEmWVY8BtiBnmXgZ-X1K6+x72jXK-6=oO-GRg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Typo.  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>)
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Re: Typo.
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2016-06-07 15:44 GMT+03:00 Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In "Internal position: this is defined the same as the P field, but it
>> is used when the cursor position refers to an internally generated",
>> "internally generated" should be replaced with "internally-generated".
>
> Not according to, for example, the Chicago Manual of Style:
>
> http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf
>
> (See the "adverb ending in ly + participle or adjective" category.)
>
> I'm pretty sure that this has been discussed on this list before
> and decided in favor of omitting the hyphenation in such cases.
Hm, well, how about removing hypenation from
"Internal query: the text of a failed internally-generated command",
"procedural language functions and internally-generated queries",
at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/protocol-error-fields.html
and similar in other places?

--
// Dmitry.


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