> On 17 September 2007 00:35, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > > And now to the most important issue of all to address before we can > > release GCC 4.3.0. ;-) > > > > In our current documentation we have both "command-line option" and > > "command line option". Like other such cases, we should make a choice > > and document this in codingconventions.html. > > > > I am willing to take care of that, and also adjusting our web pages > > accordingly. The question now is: which of the two variants shall we > > go for? > > > > Gerald > > Hyphenated. It's not a line option of a command, it's an option of a > command-line. Oops, I didn't mean to contradict you. I would say, as a counterexample, that the term alone is, "command line," and not, "command-line." I think (please don't quote me on this) that a newspaper style dictator would agree with you. My example is take from a style that is used in non-journalistic texts. Regards, Robert -- Ctalk Home Page: http://ctalk-lang.sourceforge.net
