Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm really confused now. Is there any specific formulation, sentence, or something in the manual that my change made worse in any way? If you think so, can you please point it out precisely, including a suggestion on how to improve it? Your comment s

Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, Bob, On Jun 6, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 05:15:11PM CEST: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: This mirrors a similar recent fix to automake.texi. Any technical reasons against this patch? The r

Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Charles Wilson
On 6/6/2010 11:15 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Regardless of Gary's affirmation, I don't think that replacing 'he' with > 'you' is suitable. 'He' and 'you' are not at all equivalent terms. If > there are two people in a room and one of them is 'you' then the other > one may be 'he' or 'she' but i

Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 05:15:11PM CEST: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >This mirrors a similar recent fix to automake.texi. > >Any technical reasons against this patch? > >The rest of the manual greps ok. > > Regardless of Gary's affirmation,

Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
er might still have been in elementary school at the time (or the womb) and so it is not suitable to use the term 'you'. Bob Thanks, Ralf Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral. * doc/libtool.texi (Introduction): Use gender-neutral formulation when addressing developers. d

Re: Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 6 Jun 2010, at 18:24, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > This mirrors a similar recent fix to automake.texi. > Any technical reasons against this patch? Looks good to me. Thanks! > The rest of the manual greps ok. > > Thanks, > Ralf > > Rewrite manual in

Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.

2010-06-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
This mirrors a similar recent fix to automake.texi. Any technical reasons against this patch? The rest of the manual greps ok. Thanks, Ralf Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral. * doc/libtool.texi (Introduction): Use gender-neutral formulation when addressing developers