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Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:07:47 -0500
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

At 2018-12-03T06:27:35+0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Sounds interesting, but what is it exactly?  I've skimmed through
> > his home page (https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/) but haven't seen
> > any mention of that.
> 
> Cf. this message on the TeXLive mailing list.
> 
>   https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-November/042697.html

I only mention this because it's an error that has crept into our
documentation before (and which I've fixed).

"Cf." means "compare" (Latin: "confere").  People seem to use it as if
it were a synonym of "q.v." ("quod vide" -> *"which see"), but it is
not.

Regards,
Branden

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