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Subject: Re: [RFCv2] man-pages.7: Add phrasal semantic newlines advise
From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages () gmail ! com>
Date: 2021-11-22 11:59:54
Message-ID: 1702be66-028c-47af-4015-2ea42b3e519a () gmail ! com
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Hi, Branden!
On 11/22/21 08:37, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> The downside is that they are more difficult to automatically spot
>> than clause breaks (which tend to have associated punctuation).
>> But we are humans writing patches,
>> not machines,
>> and therefore we should be able to decide and detect them better.
>
> I, do, however, find the free verse style more difficult to read in
> email, as a rule. A brain is a modal thing, and when I'm reading emails
> I'm generally prepared for prose. When I'm editing a man page, my mind
> is in a different mode, and better prepared for the foregoing textual
> style.
Sorry :)
>> This convention, sometimes known as "semantic newlines",
>> makes it easier to see the effect of patches,
>> -which often operate at the level of individual sentences or sentence clauses.
>> +which often operate at the level of
>> +individual sentences, sentence clauses, or phrases.
>
> I would drop the qualifier "sentence" from "sentence clause(s)" here.
> One wonders, "what's a NON-sentence clause"? Just "clauses" is fine. >
> This noun is not otherwise used in the man-pages project except very
> rarely to refer to items in legal notices, another standard usage with a
> clearly distinct context. In the context of the patch, the discussion
> is obviously grammatical and sentential.
Makes sense; will do.
>
> Apart from that, LGTM!
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
Thanks!
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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