From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: pedantry alert -- what is the proper spelling of "barebox"?
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:33:05 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1211160632050.4136@oneiric> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121116111802.GN10369@pengutronix.de>
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:01:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > sascha already knows that i'm going to be poking around the wiki
> > documentation and doing some editing, so what is the proper spelling
> > of barebox, particularly in the middle of a sentence? i'm asking this
> > publicly so that others can see the answer in case they were going to
> > do any writing, for the sake of consistency.
> >
> > for example, in the very first section of the wiki, it's spelled
> > both as "barebox" and "Barebox". it really should be consistent.
>
> It's 'barebox'. barebox even has a small letter when at the
> beginning of a sentence. I'm normally after this, but espially
> office programs are sometimes hard to convince that this is correct.
ok, thanks for the clarification, i'll even add that note to the
wiki early on.
rday
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2012-11-16 11:01 Robert P. J. Day
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