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bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".
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John Williams |
Subject: |
bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.". |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:34:34 -0700 |
What about just deleting it in all the places where it adds nothing
because there's already a hyperlink?
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> "This is about foobar, which see" is a customary usage in English.
> Perhaps not used so much nowadays as 50 years ago. People who don't
> know it will have a good chance of figuring it out from the meanings
> of the two words."
>
> As for "q.v.", that is an erudite abbreviation that most people won't know,
> and won't have any way to figure out.
>
> Thus, this change would make the text harder to understand. Please
> don't make this change.
>
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- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., (continued)
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Glenn Morris, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., João Távora, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., John Williams, 2017/10/14
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Drew Adams, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/15
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Alan Third, 2017/10/16
- bug#28790: [PATCH] Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/14
bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v."., Richard Stallman, 2017/10/12
- bug#28790: Replaced "which see" with "q.v.".,
John Williams <=