[MPlayer-dev-eng] [DOCS] spelling conventions

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Oct 19 16:04:01 CEST 2002


Arpi writes:
 > > I have two small questions about spelling conventions in the docs, I
 > > think we should settle on one form or the other:
 > > 
 > > 1) Arpi or A'rpi?
 > >    Both are used, it's not clear which one is correct and/or
 > >    preferred.
 > the later.

OK, btw you send mail as "Arpi"..

 > > 2) MPlayer or <B>MPlayer</B>?
 > imho it doesn't matter.
 > what does matter, is MPlayer vs. Mplayer vs mplayer. MPlayer is the correct.
 > (while from Xine vs xine, xine is the correct :))

Yes, of course the name is MPlayer, unless you speak of the program
you call on the console, which is mplayer.

 > >    This used to be a big mixup, I have converted most to the bold
 > >    form, but new ones keep cropping up.  Besides I have come to think
 > >    that it is unnecessary and rather tacky.  It distracts from the
 > >    things we really want to stress.  This is documentation about
 > >    MPlayer, no need to stress this fact in every other sentence.  It
 > agree

OK, I'll fire up sed and do some automated replacing.

Diego



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