Kuba Ober wrote:
On niedziela 10 paÅdziernik 2004 02:04 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
What about the cruelty to the common apostroph? I am not a native speaker,
but it looks wrong there.
Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The
user's. Then one has user's guide
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote:
> If it [the possessing object] does [end with an s], then add just
> the apostrophe. For example: if Simons owns a ball, which is red,
> then Simons' ball is red.)
Actually this is generally regarded as archaic, at least in the UK[1]
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Scott Ritchie wrote:
The Winelib documentation is called the Winelib User's Guide, but the
Wine documentation is called the Wine User Guide.
I think for consistency's sake we should rename the Wine User Guide to
Wine User's Guide - afterall, it's a guide for the user, not about the
user.
Thoughts?
Let's do it like Microsoft, and call it "Wine 1.0 starts here" ;-)
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[...]
> We could add a blurb about why the User* Guide is named in a certain way
> in the intro section, too ;-)) (just joking)
[...]
> P.S.: God, so much time wasted to prove writing of such a minor point ;-)
Let's see if LyX folks decide to implement it, then you might as well port
your documen
Hi all,
On Thursday 14 October 2004 16:00, Kuba Ober wrote:
> On niedziela 10 paÅdziernik 2004 02:04 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:10:06AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > > > I think for consistency
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:18:23AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:00 AM -0400 Kuba Ober
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The
> >user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide.
>
> Wou
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:18:23AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:00 AM -0400 Kuba Ober
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The
> >user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide.
>
> Would it
--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:00 AM -0400 Kuba Ober
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The
user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide.
Would it not be "Users' Guide"? A guide for *all* users? (Plural)
OTOH, I just plugged "u
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:22:10PM +0100, Peter Riocreux wrote:
> I have always operated on the principle that if two people can argue
> about it then it should be written a different way, so how about one of:
>
> Guide for Wine Users
> Guide to Using Wine
> Wine: a guide for Users
> Using Wine
H
Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On niedziela 10 październik 2004 02:04 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
>> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:10:06AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> > > I think for consistency's sake we should rename
On niedziela 10 paÅdziernik 2004 02:04 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:10:06AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > > I think for consistency's sake we should rename the Wine User Guide to
> > > Wine User's Gui
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