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Re: [RFC] entropy plugin rework + support for the gtk and text frontends



On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:25:32AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> - parenthesis outside sentence. I think this is typographically
> incorrect. Should be:
>  "...bas been collected (NOTE: this can take a long time).

When the parenthetical is a complete sentence in its own right, it's fine in
English to put it outside the end-of-sentence punctuation.

> - uppercase "NOTE". I tend to discourage this just like all all-caps
>   words
>   Indeed, I tend to discourage "NOTE", "WARNING", etc in texts shown
>   to users
>   Maybe just :
>   "...has been collected (which can take a long time)".

But this is better anyway in this case.

Cheers,
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