On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:33:52AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>
> "ExtendedFeatures" is the abbreviated name, a mnemonic. Maybe if all
> of you would READ the manual instead of just the title...
>
> John, we did read the manual. Our problem is that `extended features'
> is not correct grammatically. You are not extending existing features
> of lyx; in the manual you talk about some "more" or "additional"
> features of lyx (that were not talked about in the Users' Guide).
You've just made my point: you're taking a sufficiently vague
mnemonic, which could be interpreted many, many ways, forcing a
single interpretation on it, then playing Grammar Police.
It's a mnemonic, an abbreviation. That's why, in the intro to the
manual, I "talk about some 'more' or 'additional' features of lyx
(that were not talked about in the Users' Guide)." I expand the
abbreviation, explain the mnemonic.
"Extended Features" is a compromise. It's short enough to fit
on a menu, vague enough to hit close to the content, long enough to
imply its subject, and precise enough to be interpretable at all.
I could rename it, "Garbage Pail," which is another way to describe
the EG's purpose. It's not terribly accurate, to say nothing of
elegant.
I could rename it, "LyX Extensions, Specialized and Advanced
Features," which would never fit in a menu entry, and has no
convenient, menu-length mnemonic that would please all of you Grammar
Police and Nit-Pickers.
Of course, I could rename it, "lugeagp," an abbreviation that cannot
be misinterpreted because it's only has meaning to me, and even then,
only until I go to bed, when I'll likely forget what it means. I
think, however, that Unix has enough cryptic, arcane names floating
around it.
Besides which, "Extended Features" can be rewritten as "Features which
are Extended," a phrase that means something TOTALLY different than,
"extending features," which you claim it means. Your grammar is wrong.
--
John Weiss
