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Re: [PATCH] fix hyphenation and matters of style in docs
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Bob Wilson <bwilson at tensilica dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:40:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix hyphenation and matters of style in docs
- References: <4607FE10.8000402@tensilica.com>
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:08:32AM -0700, Bob Wilson wrote:
> I've got a few more doc patches left. This one gets into some things that are
> a little bit more a matter of style, at least in regard to the best way to fix
> the problems. I've been trying to make fairly minimal changes here (although I
> did add some whitespace fixes to this patch after seeing Eli's request for
> that), but in some cases I wondered whether more substantial changes would be
> better, e.g., to avoid use of hyphenated adjectives. Personally, I think this
> patch is fine, so I guess I'm just trying to explain why I split out these
> changes into a separate patch -- they seemed more likely to generate some
> comments.
>
> 2007-03-26 Bob Wilson <bob.wilson@acm.org>
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Contributors, Continuing and Stepping)
> (Fortran Defaults, HPPA, TUI, TUI Commands, Configure Options)
> (General Query Packets, File-I/O remote protocol extension)
> (Protocol basics, The F reply packet, write)
> (Protocol-specific representation of datatypes, Memory transfer):
> Fix hyphenation, punctuation and grammar problems.
> (Cygwin Native): Likewise. Also fix misuse of @pxref and use
> 'section' instead of 'subsection' in the text.
> (Non-debug DLL symbols): Avoid 'subsubsection' in the text.
> (i386): Remove period from section name.
Eli, did you see this patch? I'm only asking because you're normally
so quick to respond :-)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
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