On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:55:32AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2003 10:21:34 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 07:59:48AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > 
> > > I think we should use the acronym spelling (FVWM) in the official
> > > announcements.
> > 
> > Sigh, I can't leave this uncommented.  I am totally against
> > re-introducing the FVWM vs. fvwm vs. Fvwm vs. [fF][vV][wW][mM]
> > confusion again.
> 
> There are only 3 variants of spelling, not 16.
> And most of the official places use and always used "FVWM" spelling
> (web, mailing lists, cvs commits, bug tracking).
> 
> > It cost me many hours of work to reach a
> > consistent state on the web pages and in all documentation I am
> > aware of and I would not give it away without very good reasons.
> > I don't think that "it looks better in capitals" qualifies as said
> > kind of reason.
> 
> I didn't oppose your usage of "fvwm in the middle of sentences and Fvwm
> in the beggining of sentences" and I continue to use this convention in
> the main man page and some other technical places. Although this suggests
> "fvwm" is not a term, but a regular English word that is not the case.
> I think it would be more informative to use the convention suggested by
> Olivier that only uses "fvwm" and "FVWM" to distinguish between 2 things.
> 
> Anyway, I speak here about non-technical announcements that are written
> in English and any human language requires acronyms to be written as
> capitals (i.e. GNU, not Gnu or gnu).

Whatever.  I disagree completely, but as always, I can not stop
you from doing what you are going to do.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^
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