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Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:15:11 -0500 (CDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14)

On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

This mirrors a similar recent fix to automake.texi.
Any technical reasons against this patch?
The rest of the manual greps ok.

Regardless of Gary's affirmation, I don't think that replacing 'he' with 'you' is suitable. 'He' and 'you' are not at all equivalent terms. If there are two people in a room and one of them is 'you' then the other one may be 'he' or 'she' but is definitely not 'you'. If one is talking about the past, then the gentle reader might still have been in elementary school at the time (or the womb) and so it is not suitable to use the term 'you'.

Bob


Thanks,
Ralf

   Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

   * doc/libtool.texi (Introduction): Use gender-neutral
   formulation when addressing developers.

diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi
index bbc22f4..051aec3 100644
--- a/doc/libtool.texi
+++ b/doc/libtool.texi
@@ -230,13 +230,13 @@ Platform quirks
@node Introduction
@chapter Introduction

-In the past, if a source code package developer wanted to take advantage
-of the power of shared libraries, he needed to write custom support code
-for each platform on which his package ran.  He also had to design a
-configuration interface so that the package installer could choose what
-sort of libraries were built.
+In the past, if you were a source code package developer and wanted to
+take advantage of the power of shared libraries, you needed to write
+custom support code for each platform on which your package ran.  You
+also had to design a configuration interface so that the package
+installer could choose what sort of libraries were built.

-GNU Libtool simplifies the developer's job by encapsulating both the
+GNU Libtool simplifies your job by encapsulating both the
platform-specific dependencies, and the user interface, in a single
script.  GNU Libtool is designed so that the complete functionality of
each host type is available via a generic interface, but nasty quirks


--
Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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