On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:37:45PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Justin B Rye wrote: > >> * &entity questions - when am I meant to say "Debian" and when is it > >> "&debian;"? This like many of these entities seems to have no > >> obvious function other than to make the source harder to > >> interpret... > >> * The &d-i; entity expands to "debian-installer" in bold verbatim > >> lowercase. If that is in effect the brandname of the software > >> project then presumably we shouldn't be talking about "the > >> &d-i;" - that ought to be "the Debian installer". > > > > Presumably both of these parametrisations are for the convenience of > > Debian derivatives and forks. By making these macros, it's easier for > > the, and it'll be easier for us to merge downstream patches. > > An interesting idea, but one that seems unlikely to work, especially > given the way it's used in the text. For instance, there's a page > "welcome/what-is-debian-linux.xml", which is full of sentences like > "&debian; was the first Linux distribution to include a package > management system".
It makes me wonder whether this was originally the intention, but has become lost as generations of editors failed to follow up on it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150726153548.ga12...@topoi.pooq.com
