Warren Block <[email protected]> writes: > John Baldwin <[email protected]> writes: > > Warren Block <[email protected]> writes: > > > .Fn fdclose > > > is equivalent to > > > .Fn fclose , > > > but the file descriptor is returned rather than closed. > > Yes, but this has the 'no capital letter at the start of a sentence' > > problem. > I've heard that mentioned before, but have never seen any actual rule > regarding it. And we do have actual rules about avoiding redundant > phrases: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/book.html#writing-style-guidelines
We always use The .Nm foo utility or The .Fn foo function instead of just .Nm or .Fn at the start of a sentence, but never (or rarely) within a sentence. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
