Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.

[Alex Kost]

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-30 15:54 +0300) wrote:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> I noticed some typos and/or missing words when reading parts of the
>> manual.  Instead of leaving it be, I attached a patch to fix them.
>>
>> I don't know how my commit message should look like in this case, so
>> please let me know when it is wrong.
>
> I think the first fix should be this:
>
> -computations (here computations include accesses to the store.)  Values
> +computations (here computations include accesses to the store).  Values
>
> rather than having a period both in and outside the parentheses.

I agree, this looks natural to me, but I heard (from Ludo) that there is
some "typographic school" (or how is it called), that says "(foo.)" is
the correct thing.

That line originally appeared in commit b860f3824¹, and I'm afraid it was
intended to be written that way.

¹ 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=b860f382447a360ea2ce8a89d3357279cc652c3a

-- 
Alex