Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
On 28-Aug-06, 20:08 (CDT), "James R. Van Zandt" <jrvz@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> > On 20-Aug-06, 15:43 (CDT), "James R. Van Zandt" <jrvz@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs
> >
> > In English, the beginning of a sentence is capitalized. Consider it to
> > be the program name, rather than the executable. If you can't tolerate
> > this, recast the sentence to avoid beginning with the program name.
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> I'm following the GNU coding standards: "If a lower-case identifier
> comes at the beginning of a sentence, don't capitalize it! Changing
> the spelling makes it a different identifier."
In this usage, the term "aa" is not an identifier, nor a program
executable name. It is a package name. Look at, for example bacula.
It seems awkward because 'aa' is not pronouncable, which is why I
suggested recasting the sentence.
Steve
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