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 ^_^ ^_^ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
