On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:01 am, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Looks like good answer is found. > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:11:37AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > ... > > > Even better: > > What does it mean when a package either Depends, Recommends, Suggests, > > Conflicts, Replaces, or Provides another package? > > Yes, you got it right. > > We need to think outside of box. [BOX: this/that <-> this / that] > > For words like "Depends" in this context, we should punctuate with "," > while adding single quotation marks in plain text output and using fixed > font in PDF/HTML to indicate these are console output words and shall > not be taken as verbs. Tags like <tt> should do this in SGML. > > ---x8 snip-start > <sect id="depends">What is meant by saying that a package > <tt>Depends</tt>, <tt>Recommends</tt>, <tt>Suggests</tt>, > <tt>Conflicts</tt>, <tt>Replaces</tt>, <tt>Provides </tt> another > package? > ---x8 snip-end > > This is in-line with debiandoc-sgml guideline. Any objection? > > Like I said "/" is very colloquial. I agree "," is a way to do. > > > I didn't major in English, but I grew up with the language. Besides, > > English is hardly the perfect language for rules. At some point, it > > becomes a matter of what sounds right :-}. > > Well I know. > > Many academic publications have style guide. That is always a good > reference :)
however you arrange the formatting, you really do need to write 'Depends on,' and 'Conflicts with,' otherwise, stylistically, it's just going to look plain ugly and be grammatically incorrect. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
