On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:05:58PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Well directly out of the Editor's guide: > > Units provided for the download sizes should be kilobytes (1024 bytes) > or megabytes (1024 kilobytes). Entries less than a 1000 kilobytes should > be specified as whole numbers (e.g., 320 KB); larger sizes should be > accurate to one decimal (e.g., 6.9 MB). Build sizes should be rounded to > the nearest megabyte and displayed as whole numbers (e.g., 38 MB). SBU > entries should be rounded to one decimal. If the value is less than 0.1 > SBU, it should be listed as "less than 0.1 SBU". Very long build times > (greater than 10 SBUs) should be listed as integer values. > > What's wrong with that? > Thanks for that statement, Bruce. You should know that I tend not to read the documentation (even when I have it - anything not in BOOK/ is assumed to be filed under "beware of the leopard" and dangerous to know ;)
I'll try to remember this, and adhere to it. Thanks also to Randy and Joe for enlightening me about another difference in our versions of English - my (paper) copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary has the etymology of the 'P' word as "19th-c. Scots: origin unknown". It's a part of my normal vocabulary, didn't occur to me that wasn't common to us all. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
