[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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