Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:34:33PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > On 06 Oct 2002 14:32:16 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > > > > > > Log message: > > > > * fvwm.1: use "fvwm" spelling in the middle of sentences for consistenc > > > > > > I guess I did that, sorry. > > > Fvwm is a proper noun and capitalization is probably correct, > > > but I don't have a strong preference. Its our proper noun and > > > I suppose we can do whatever we want with it. > > > > I only converted what Dominik would convert anyway. I myself never write > > "Fvwm" even in the beginning of the sentence. Either "FVWM" (acronym) or > > "fvwm" (package/executable name) just like with GNOME, KDE, CDE or GNU > > I would never write Gnu or Kde. But this is only my humble preferences. > > I really don't care much about capitalizing it or not, but > constantly mixing "fvwm" and "Fvwm" is bad. I once chose to use > the lower case version everywhere for consistency. By the way, > the phrase/word "built-in" appeared for the same reason. All > three spellings appeared many times in the various man pages, so > I just changed them all to "built-in" which was what ispell > suggested. My dictionary also lists "built-in" as the adjective > for "to build in". It does not mention "builtin".
Gee, now I'm going to blame ispell (under XEmacs) which says "BUILTIN is correct", but when I try to spell check "built-in", it just says "BUILT is correct". My dictionary agrees with yours. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
