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From: | William Pursell |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace 'automake' with @command{automake} where appropriate in automake.texi |
Date: | Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:03:56 +0000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) |
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* William Pursell wrote on Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:06:10PM CET:
@@ -11677,7 +11677,7 @@ A major and long-awaited release, that comes more than two years after @item The new dependency tracking scheme that uses @command{depcomp}. Aside from the improvement on the dependency tracking itself (@pxref{Dependency Tracking Evolution}), this also streamlines the use -of automake generated @file{Makefile.in}s as the @file{Makefile.in}s +of @command{automake} generated @file{Makefile.in}s as the @file{Makefile.in}sI have a question here: shouldn't this be address@hidden' here? With hyphenation, in German I tend to have a good feeling about when it's needed and when not, but I'm not quite sure whether those rules (which I probably can't even formulate precisely) carry over to English writing.
As a native English speaker, I have absolutely no idea. I'm not even sure that English has rules. :) My intuition says that either form is grammatically correct, that including the hyphen is probably slightly more correct, and that leaving it out is slightly more natural. I don't think the distinction is enough that anyone would notice either way. Opinions may vary, of course, and it is entirely likely that I am completely wrong. -- William Pursell
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