> > proportionally-spaced font
The correct term is "proportional font". The term "tabulation stop" seems overly pedantic Agreed. I'd shorten it to tab stop <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop> instead. On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 17:42, Dave Kemper <saint.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/10/20, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I predictably forgot to attach my patch when I mentioned my pending > > rewrite of the first section of the "gtroff Reference" chapter of our > > Texinfo manual, and since it was a digression anyway I thought I'd give > > it a new thread. > > This patch is up to your usual high standards of clarity and > readability. Every change here improves the text it replaces. I > spotted only a couple of minor glitches: > > "...closing a the body of..." > > "Remember that... after a true conditional... and whitespace on the > same input line is interpreted as if it were on an input line by > itself." I'm not quite able to parse this; it appears something was > left out. > > And then some style nits, because I'm me: > > "proportionally-spaced fonts" should lose its hyphen. I'd stick a > hyphen after the first word of "natural language text." You might > consider this part of the ice-cream-cone exemption, but this phrase > seems to benefit more from the parsing aid. > > The term "tabulation stop" seems overly pedantic in light of the fact > that the full word "tabulation" is already used earlier in the > sentence and its shorter and more common form already introduced. > > The placement of some of the @footnote{}s relative to periods in the > text is inconsistent; that is, sometimes it is > > ...end of sentence.@footnote{Note.} > > and sometimes > > ...end of sentence@footnote{Note.}. > > The Wikipedian in me prefers the first style, but consistency is what > matters. > >
