Re: emacs-28 2c6a94c5b8: ; Correct the meaning of "cf." in tips.texi

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 29 2022, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> - In Bug#40011, I quote Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel
>   (2004), which says:
>
>     "It is often tempting to use abbreviations such as 'no.', 'i.e.',
>     'e.g.' 'c.f.' and 'w.r.t.'  These save little space on the page,
>     but slow readers down.  It is almost always desirable to expand
>     these abbreviations, to 'number', 'that is', 'for example',
>     'compared with' (or more accurately 'in contrast to', since that
>     is the sense in which 'c.f.' should be used), and 'with respect
>     to', or synonyms of these expressions.

The wiktionary refers to
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/cf, which prefers
`cf.' over `c.f.', and uses the meaning `compare with'.

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