"Tony Lewis" <[email protected]> writes: > Apparently "which see" is used as a literal translation of the Latin "quod > vide". In the places that I found it used as in the wget documentation, the > phrase was always surrounded with parentheses so the appropriate usage > appears to be:
I'm not that google hits count as "appropriate usage", especially when there are unparenthesized google hits as well, such as http://tinyurl.com/3xcj8k2 . The phrase may be confusing to some, but parentheses are no more "appropriate" there than a comma. > At any rate, I contend that "which see" is confusing and recommend > that something less confusing be used in its place. Changing it is perfectly fine with me; I just wanted to point out that it's not a typo and that one cannot just remove the "which see" part and not change meaning.
