Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace 'automake' with @command{automake} where appropriate in automake.texi

[William Pursell]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * William Pursell wrote on Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:06:10PM CET:

> > @@ -11677,7 +11677,7 @@ A major and long-awaited release, that comes more than 
> > two years after
> >  @item The new dependency tracking scheme that uses @command{depcomp}.
> >  Aside from the improvement on the dependency tracking itself
> >  (@pxref{Dependency Tracking Evolution}), this also streamlines the use
> > -of automake generated @file{Makefile.in}s as the @file{Makefile.in}s
> > +of @command{automake} generated @file{Makefile.in}s as the @file{Makefile.in}s
>
> I have a question here: shouldn't this be address@hidden'
> here?  With hyphenation, in German I tend to have a good feeling about
> when it's needed and when not, but I'm not quite sure whether those
> rules (which I probably can't even formulate precisely) carry over to
> English writing.

As a native English speaker, I have absolutely no idea.
I'm not even sure that English has rules. :)
My intuition says that either form is grammatically
correct, that including the hyphen is probably slightly
more correct, and that leaving it out is slightly more
natural.  I don't think the distinction is enough that
anyone would notice either way.  Opinions may vary, of
course, and it is entirely likely that I am completely
wrong.

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William Pursell