Re: [Pan-users] spelling lessons (Re: files for imhotep82 git ef96111 - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" yEnc (1/1) 5073 bytes)

[Duncan]

SciFi posted on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:22:38 +0000 as excerpted:

> Thanks for all the personal writeups, even on the "my jumping ship"
> thread.
> I'll save them for later, when I have more time to add (and I _do_).
> 
> I remember the acronym meant by the all-uppercase "PAN".
> I do have a tiny whim, tho, with current practice:
> I want to capitalize "Pan" as a proper noun,
> because I don't want the spelling "pan" to be confused with a kitchen
> utensil.  :D

How about a computer binary that "just happens" to do newsgroups? =:^)

For me, it was really one or the other, either all caps to represent the 
full name, or all small, to represent the name of the binary (and no, I 
do NOT want the binary's name to be changed to "Pan"!

In fact, I /so/ changed, that I want to not capitalize it at the 
beginning of sentences, now, and I'm NOT the type that normally fails to 
capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence.  But here, 
I'm now referring to a string-literal that's the name of an executable 
binary, so for much the same reason I use "logical quotes", that is, 
punctuation outside the quote unless it's literally part of it, I want to 
use "pan" as such, even at the beginning of a sentence.  (I don't believe 
I'm fully personally consistent with such a policy, however, tho, at 
least not yet.  But the same policy applies to my discussion of kde 
binaries in the kde lists/groups, kmail, konqueror, etc, often tend to be 
string-literal lowercase, even when beginning a sentence.  "kde" in lower 
case, however, and "gnome" in lower case, etc, is something different.  
There, I do try to generally capitalize at the beginning of sentences, 
but then it's full-caps, KDE and GNOME, and I suspect it'd be the same 
with PAN.)

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