From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29061 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2007 15:40:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 29004 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Apr 2007 15:40:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from return.false.org (HELO return.false.org) (66.207.162.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:40:44 +0100 Received: from return.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E426D4B267; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:40:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (dsl093-172-095.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.172.95]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECB94B262; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:40:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HbISS-0003Nz-KD; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:40:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:40:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Bob Wilson , Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix hyphenation and matters of style in docs Message-ID: <20070410154030.GF10890@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bob Wilson , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <4607FE10.8000402@tensilica.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4607FE10.8000402@tensilica.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00091.txt.bz2 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 > > * 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 CodeSourcery