Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> writes: > On su, 2010-08-22 at 16:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > If the extended description finally requires double space for > > verbatim display, then how abould calling the ‘special first line’ > > synopsis, to be closer to the vocabulary used in the specification > > of the Description field ? > > Could some English experts weigh in whether the word synopsis is a > good way to describe the list of license short names?
It's a bit strange in that context. “Summary” might be better, at the cost of being rather vague. But “synopsis” is unambiguous and not wrong, so I think in combination with the consistency-with-other-specifications argument it's a good choice. -- \ “First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, for verbing | `\ weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns and I speech | _o__) nothing, for I no verbs.” —Peter Ellis | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
