[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] change AC3 to AC-3

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:36:30AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:08:27PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> >> The Wanderer wrote:
> >> > Justin Ruggles wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >> The Wanderer wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Justin Ruggles wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >>>> I'm not saying that this is what I always follow... but if I had
> >> >>>> to choose a set of rules...
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I think that a period should be used for either indicating the
> >> >>>> end of a complete sentence or separating a Doxygen brief
> >> >>>> description from a detailed description.  For capitalization, I
> >> >>>> think that the only considerations should be normal English
> >> >>>> grammer: start of a sentence, proper names, acronyms, etc...
> >> >>> If I'm not mistaken, that's roughly the same as the current rule.
> >> >>> The only question I see is, how do you define what counts as a
> >> >>> "sentence"?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Diego has, I believe, been using the definition that a sentence
> >> >>> must have both a verb and an object, and anything which has both is
> >> >>> one. This seems reasonable to me; it sometimes produces results
> >> >>> which I do not find intuitive, but it has not to date produced
> >> >>> results which I found seriously objectionable. Do you disagree with
> >> >>> that definition? If so, what would you propose as an alternative?
> >> >> Yes, that is exactly where I object.  I think that a sentence
> >> >> fragment should not be treated as a complete sentence.  To me it
> >> >> seems more than just counter-intuitive.
> >> > 
> >> > So, you think that some things which have both verb and object do not
> >> > constitute complete sentences?
> >> 
> >> I think the main point here is the difference between a complete
> >> sentence and a dependent clause.  The latter may have a verb and an
> >> object, but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
> >> 
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_clause
> >
> > Still a verb is a necessary requirement for a sentence to be complete.
> >
> > The purpose of my rule is to be easily applicable by non-native speakers
> > without much knowledge or interest in grammar while still producing
> > correct results in >95% of the cases.
> >
> > Also, why would you want to capitalize a phrase like "the simplest AC-3
> > encoder"?
> 
> Do all your printed books have the title written in lowercase?  Mine
> don't, and most of them don't have a verb in the title.

Titles get most of the words capitalized, it would have to be "The
Simplest AC-3 Encoder" then.

Diego