Hi Branden, On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 09:52:14AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for clarifying a couple of points. I have... > > ...counter-clarifications! :P :P > > For consistency with "TH" (title heading?), I think I prefer "title". > > Except in *roff(7), "titles" are the term given to headers and footers > collectively; the content of these is precisely what the `TH` macro > configures; and arguments beyond its first are just determinative of > "title" content. Hmmm, makes sense. > > filename is the file name. > > No disagreement here. I would say that "filename" is an excellent C > identifier, but it is not English. Novice man page authors have a > terrible habit of porting C identifiers into English prose as if they > were the same language. Possibly this practice arises from a feeling > of greater confidence and a self-assessment of more experience > expressing themselves in C than in English. I have been tempted to do a reform, and change man-pages(7) to recommend using file name and file system (etc.) instead of filename and filesystem. I find it inconsistent that it recommends filename but recommends user space. I would either use a neologism in all of them or in none of them, but find the status quo arbitrary. So far, I've had more important food in my plate, but at some point I might take a fork and a knive and start with it. > > > > if the name is something like UTF-8, > > > > > > (by which you mean "uses code points outside the Basic Latin range") > > > > Nope. I meant UTF-8(7): > > Oh, ha! I'd have quoted it in that case -- use/mention distinction. ;-) Thanks! Indeed, I should have. Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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