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

[SciFi]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:25:53 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> 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.)

Well, something I failed to mention,
what hardcore learnéd *ix people usually do,
when talking about the "computer binary" aka command itself,
is use the "grave accent" + filename + "apostrophe" type quoting,
e.g. `pan' .
I see this almost all the time in the GNU groups.  ;)