Re: typo and missing periods and such

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Benno,

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:07:07PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Attached patch to doc/info.texi corrects a typo and a mistake, 
...
> (If such patches are useless or unwelcome, please let me know how 
> else to help smooth out the text.)

of course your patch is welcome!  Anyone willing to make the text more
smooth is doing a very important task.

I don't agree with some of your changes, but please be patient with us.
;-)

Regarding this:

-special meaning---they are only for the human reader's benefit and do
+special meaning -- they are only for the human reader's benefit and do

I believe that English (and American) typography uses the em-dash, not
surrounded with spaces, ie. "...meaning---they...".

OTOH, Czech tradition is to use somewhat shorter dash, and put spaces
around it.  So some Czech typoghraphers use "meaning -- they", other
use "meaning --- they" while the best solution would probably be
something inbetween---a dash of width 3/4 em.
I guess that Dutch tradition is similar to Czech which mislead you...

I agree there is at least one inconsistency there, but we have to correct
it the other way round.

And regarding this:
address@hidden links, or both.  As you can see, this node has all of these
address@hidden link, or both.  As you can see, this node has all of these
 links.

I'm not a native speaker, but I'm afraid the old version was correct.
Let's see what Karl says.


I'd like to emphasize again that your help is welcome.
If you are willing to help more, please wait for comments from Karl Berry
(the maintainer of texinfo), and redo your patch according to our comments.

I hope you don't mind my critical attitude.

Thank you for your work.
        Stepan Kasal