Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:53:55 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Sorry for the delay in responding, been on holiday. Defined usage: () parentheses [] brackets {} braces Defined? Defined where? The OED. In English*, a parenthesis is a separate expression** marked off from the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media- libs/freetype) The

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500, Dale wrote: So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here? Nothing, unless you're using the bindist USE flag, in which case you should replace it by auto-hinter. All that's happened is that control of that feature has passed from one USE

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of brackets (parentheses if you're American); If you're British too: Defined usage: () parentheses [] brackets {} braces General usage: () brackets []

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500, Dale wrote: So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here? Nothing, unless you're using the bindist USE flag, in which case you should replace it by auto-hinter. All that's happened is that control of that

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:03 on Friday 20 August 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of brackets (parentheses if you're American); If you're British

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:38 on Friday 20 August 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Arrogant jerk on second floor with a beard and no head hair is definitely more intuitive to my new staff, but for anyone here longer than a week it is far simpler to just use the name of the thing instead of some description, and refer

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 August 2010 09:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote: Defined usage: () parentheses [] brackets {} braces Defined? Defined where? In English*, a parenthesis is a separate expression** marked off from the rest of the sentence with brackets. Round ones, that is. A parenthesis is not

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/20/2010 07:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag:

[WAY OT] Parenthese, was Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents of the language set aside in one way or another. I had always regarded parentheses as the round glyphs (), but

Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese, was Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:07 on Friday 20 August 2010, Mike Edenfield did opine thusly: On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents of the

[gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I just got this elog from updating my gentoo system. It's from freetype-2.4.2: begin -- LOG (postinst) The TrueType bytecode interpreter is no longer patented and thus no longer controlled by the bindist USE flag. Enable the auto-hinter

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:21:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-libs/freetype) The placement of the

Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So I looked up auto-hinter in the flagedit(1) program. It says: auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media- libs/freetype) The placement of the