On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > We should enclose -1 with <literal> tag. >> >> A quick survey of the documentation as a whole suggests that we >> enclose -1 with <literal> in a few places but more commonly we don't. >> I have no position on whether we should do it or not, but maybe we >> should try to be consistent throughout the docs? Or at least have a >> consistent rule for deciding what to do in a particular case? > > Excellent question. I went through the documentation and removed > <literal> tags where appropriate --- there are cases where we are > referencing an actual number, and there <literal> makes sense. Applied > patch attached. > > I think the larger question is whether we should say "zero" for 0 and > "one" for 1, etc. Prose typography suggests we should, but for > technical manuals, I am not sure. Ideas?
I am doubtful that this makes sense in general. I suspect it depends somewhat on context. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
