At 2024-12-31T12:35:15-0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/30/24 8:29 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2024-12-30T12:40:48-0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > > > On 12/16/24 12:48 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > * doc/bash.1: Introduce "POSIX mode" earlier in the document. > > > > Set the word "POSIX" in small caps (as traditionally done for > > > > acronyms) > > > > > > `POSIX' is not an acronym, despite the Open Group's efforts to > > > retcon it. It's historically been just a name. > > > > Okay. The important point here is not what "POSIX" literally stands > > for, if anything, but how it's pronounced. Traditionally, as in > > 50-70 years ago, the use of small caps to typeset a word was a cue > > that a term was not to be read like an initialism (USA, FBI, BBC) > > but as a pronounceable word (NASA, NATO, UNICEF). > > POSIX is pronounceable.
I tried to communicate my knowledge of that. I assumed that was why you, or the person who asked you to change the styling of "POSIX" in bashref.texi, made the choice of small caps. > At some point in the past, when I was more accommodating, ;-) > someone requested that I use it in the texinfo manual. Since it was > only the texinfo manual, I suspect it was somone connected with GNU, > but I can't remember. A style guide for the Bash documentation might be a good thing to have. Regards, Branden
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