On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:39:40PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Ugh. Since when does the developer's reference recommend this? The
> > article most definitely belongs...
> It is in 6.2.2:
>
> Since the synopsis is a clause, rather than a
> full sentence, we recommend that it neither start with a capital nor
> end with a full stop (period). It should also not begin with an
> article, either definite ("the") or indefinite ("a" or "an").
>
> It might help to imagine that the synopsis is combined with the
> package name in the following way:
> <package-name> is a <synopsis>.
Grammatically, the article is part of the clause. This recommendation
is inconsistent.
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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