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Re: Solution for ddp/manuals.sgml/faq



On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:58:32PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > > <sect id="depends">What is meant by saying that a package
> > > <tt>Depends</tt>, <tt>Recommends</tt>, <tt>Suggests</tt>,
> > > <tt>Conflicts</tt>, <tt>Replaces</tt>, <tt>Provides </tt> another
> > > package?
> > 
> > however you arrange the formatting, you really do need to write 'Depends on,' 
> > and 'Conflicts with,' 
> > 
> > otherwise, stylistically, it's just going to look plain ugly and be 
> > grammatically incorrect.
> 
> It's in italics (<em>) so I guess it'll be obvious that it's a bunch of
> literal strings?

Yes, I think so, besides being in a title, and actually describing
real keywords which will be Depends: Conflicts: in the file, not
Depends on:. In this case I disagree with adding the more
grammatically correct treatment.

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