On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 02:42:34PM -0500, Michael McConville wrote: > Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:39:20AM -0700, Michael McConville wrote: > > > CVSROOT: /cvs > > > Module name: src > > > Changes by: m...@cvs.openbsd.org 2015/11/15 10:39:20 > > > > > > Modified files: > > > usr.bin/bc : bc.1 > > > > > > Log message: > > > '.Ql Quit' -> '.Ql quit' because only the lowercase command is valid. > > > > > > > in my opinion, that's not a good enough reason to break a very basic > > rule of english language. > > Isn't it standard practice in technical documentation to leave > identifiers and keywords unaltered? It can be very confusing otherwise, > especially when (as is the case here) the term is in quotes. I'll revert > it if you feel strongly about it, though. >
we observe the basic rule that sentences begin with capitals. with Nm stuff that doesn;t happen, because of the way Nm works. there are some other exceptions too, i admit. i think the quotes in this example were to indicate that it's a command. anyway, ingo has proposed a better solution, which is to avoid the confusion in the first place. jmc
