Re: Typo in gnome-options - formulating common options
On Monday, July 04, 2005 4:43 PM, Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>
wrote:
> I've got a report of a typo in the gnome-options manual page
> /usr/share/man/man7/gnome-options.7.gz, this is #311455. Here's the
> relevant snipset:
[...]
> -?, --help
> Show the applications help message.
> ...
> --version
> Show the applications's version information.
>
> Should this be "Show the applications' help message", or "Show the
> application's help message"? Or maybe something else? "Show a help
> message for this application"?
The help message (and the version) belong to a single application, so
"application's" would be correct.
Regards,
Adam
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