[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
> Paul had a preference for "Posix"
>
> Paul?
>
> I have seen "POSIX" far more than any other spelling.
Yes, and "UNIX" is more common than "Unix", and "FORTRAN" used to be
more common than "Fortran".
Here's an idea: RMS invented the term "POSIX"/"Posi
Paul had a preference for "Posix"
Paul?
I have seen "POSIX" far more than any other spelling. "Posix" just
looks wrong to me. Maybe in 20 years it'll look right, the way
"Fortran" does now ...
As far as Texinfo goes, I recommend just writing it as-is with no
markup. I see no significant
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:01:58AM CEST:
> [adding bug-texinfo, for a documentation style question]
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> According to Bruno Haible on 6/17/2008 7:17 PM:
> |
> | s/Posix/POSIX/, no?
>
> Does anyone have a preference?
Paul had a preference for "Posix" and at one time changed all th
> Does anyone have a preference? M4 and coreutils favor "@acronym{POSIX}"
> (which renders as POSIX in info), Autoconf consistently uses "Posix",
> Automake alternates between "POSIX" and "@acronym{POSIX}". I've also seen
> "@sc{posix}". Should texinfo give a recommendation here?
Wikipedia has
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According to Bruno Haible on 6/17/2008 7:17 PM:
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|> +Posix recommends using @code{sigaction} with SA_NODEFER instead.
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| s/Posix/POSIX/, no?
Does anyone have a preference? M4 and coreutils
