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Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.
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Alex Kost |
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Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words. |
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Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:10:41 +0300 |
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Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-30 15:54 +0300) wrote:
> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> I noticed some typos and/or missing words when reading parts of the
>> manual. Instead of leaving it be, I attached a patch to fix them.
>>
>> I don't know how my commit message should look like in this case, so
>> please let me know when it is wrong.
>
> I think the first fix should be this:
>
> -computations (here computations include accesses to the store.) Values
> +computations (here computations include accesses to the store). Values
>
> rather than having a period both in and outside the parentheses.
I agree, this looks natural to me, but I heard (from Ludo) that there is
some "typographic school" (or how is it called), that says "(foo.)" is
the correct thing.
That line originally appeared in commit b860f3824¹, and I'm afraid it was
intended to be written that way.
¹
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=b860f382447a360ea2ce8a89d3357279cc652c3a
--
Alex