* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:21:16AM CEST: > On Thursday 15 September 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:35:37AM CEST: > > > On Wednesday 14 September 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > It applies to any word that is surrounded by whitespace (or beginning or > > > > end of command line), regardless of shell syntax. Please don't > > > > formulate it like Solaris make would understand shell syntax when > > > > rewriting rules, IMHO that's confusing and makes it harder to understand > > > > the issue. > > > > > > > You're right, my previous formulation was somewhat confusing in this > > > regard. What about the squash-in below? > > > > Fine with me, thanks. > > > Should I take this as an ACK to push?
On my side, sure. I think Eric would have complained if he wanted to. :-) > > also, for American > > English type setting, you'd write an emdash as three hyphens and no > > space right before and afterwards, > > > That is just horribly ugly IMHO, almost as bad as a final dot inside > double quotes. I refuse to voluntarily use those formatting in the > text I write :-) I went for the comma instead. You dislike the final dot inside double quotes? But in typeset text, the spacing can be really ugly when it's outside. But I digress ... Cheers, Ralf
