Looks like good answer is found. On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:11:37AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: ... > Even better: > What does it mean when a package either Depends, Recommends, Suggests, > Conflicts, Replaces, or Provides another package?
Yes, you got it right. We need to think outside of box. [BOX: this/that <-> this / that] For words like "Depends" in this context, we should punctuate with "," while adding single quotation marks in plain text output and using fixed font in PDF/HTML to indicate these are console output words and shall not be taken as verbs. Tags like <tt> should do this in SGML. ---x8 snip-start <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? ---x8 snip-end This is in-line with debiandoc-sgml guideline. Any objection? Like I said "/" is very colloquial. I agree "," is a way to do. > I didn't major in English, but I grew up with the language. Besides, > English is hardly the perfect language for rules. At some point, it > becomes a matter of what sounds right :-}. Well I know. Many academic publications have style guide. That is always a good reference :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D
