Re: lowercase letters for binaries

[Charles Levert]

* On Sunday 2005-11-06 at 16:50:57 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Looking for something that's easy to fix, I came across 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=190551:
> 'egrep' and 'fgrep' are mistakenly spelled 'Egrep' and 'Fgrep' in 
> the manpage.
> 
> The first part of that patch I've reproduced here, the second part 
> ("Grep" in the headers of the info page) isn't needed in my 
> opinion, as those headers aren't part of the running text.
> 
> But the info page does contain a different mistake, spelling 'egrep' 
> and 'fgrep' in all caps.  Attached patches correct these errors.

I generally agree with this.  The grep.h file
also mentions the Grep.c file!  I find it nice
to have sentences begin with a capital letter,
but there are other ways to achieve this. E.g.,
the POSIX man page uses "The grep utility...".
Using "The grep program..." and "The GNU grep
package..." (or just "GNU grep") also solves
the problem.


> Also, in 'info grep usage', point 13 is... incomprehensible.

Indeed.  Would you have a replacement text
to propose?


> And point 14 would read better as: ''The word "grep" comes from ... 
> uses the following syntax ... the screen:''

Ok.


The <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html>
web page also suffers from similar problems.


Thanks for reporting this.  My CVS copy is
currently all garbled with the current patch I'm
hoping to get applied, but hopefully this can
be done soon and I will then be able to address
this simple issue from an again synchronized CVS.