Re: she's it, not her ...

[Ingo Schwarze]

Salut Marc,

Marc Chantreux wrote on Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:33:40PM +0100:

> i'm not english native so maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me that macros
> are neutral and should be called 'it', not 'she'. i provide a patch for
> the cases a spotted but i can investigate more if this patch is
> relevant.

I sense a pun here: the English word "mom" has the same meaning as
le mot Français "maman".

It seems quite possible to me that Peter chose the wording intentionally.

Yours,
  Ingo


> diff --git a/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html b/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html
> index 020a36c9..c1b7c8fd 100644
> --- a/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html
> +++ b/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ see
>  <div class="box-tip">
>  <p class="tip">
>  <span class="note">Note:</span>
> -Mom&#8217;s colour support is for text only.  She doesn&#8217;t
> +Mom&#8217;s colour support is for text only.  It doesn&#8217;t
>  support &#8220;fill&#8221; (or &#8220;background&#8221;) colour for
>  solid, enclosed graphical objects (polygons, ellipses) drawn with
>  groff&#8217;s <kbd>\D</kbd>
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