On 10 November 2010 17:34, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Reuben, > > * Reuben Thomas wrote on Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:24:01PM CET: >> The "I" author of the manual, I presume David MacKenzie, is not >> actually mentioned (any more?) in the manual. >> >> Perhaps the best solution would be to add his name to the history >> section, and then remove the use of the author-self-referential "I" >> elsewhere (there are only a handful)? > > Can you suggest a patch, ideally including checking git history that the > changed parts really were all introduced by David?
Attached, against current git. The log of the history is superficially complex, but as far as I can see, that's only because of a number of systematic corrections of various macro usages &c. over the years. As far as I can tell, it mostly comes from: commit d5c63cb83ebec680a74fdae5f752a2a0ad729bb7 Author: David MacKenzie <d...@djmnet.org> Date: Tue Aug 23 20:24:36 1994 +0000 fix x, add history I can only find one other authorial first person; the others I had thought I found were in an attributed quotation. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
0001-Fix-use-of-first-person-in-History-chapter.patch
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