Re: Doc: rename section in LM (3280) (issue 8575044)

[dak]

On 2013/04/12 09:31:17, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> On 2013/04/11 22:37:41, Graham Percival wrote:
> > I think it would be nicer if we could find a word that wasn't a
command word
> > ("modifications"?  "adjustments" ?  "customizations"?) but I agree
that in
> this
> > case "override" is better than "tweak".

> Yes, we need a word or phrase that can be used to replace
> tweaks and tweaking in all the places where they are used
> generically, leaving tweaks and tweaking to refer to the
> specific use of \tweak as a command.  Earlier, when \tweak
> as a comand was rarely used, no confusion arose, but now that
> \tweak is more useful and is appearing more frequently in
> replies and documentation I think the time has come to make
> the change.  Although long, I think "fine-tuning the layout"
> captures the generic meaning of tweaking quite well, and once
> introduced it could be shortened to just "fine-tuning".  The
> noun could be "fine-tuning adjustments."

> So this section could entitled "Using variables for fine-tuning"
> or "Using variables for fine-tuning the layout".

> The main difficulty with this, and the reason why I'm looking
> for further comment, is that many tweaks and overrides are rather
> more than _fine_-tuning, but I think I could live with this.

It's not really "fine-tuning", and "tuning" alone has strange
connotations.

I think "retouching" is pretty much on spot.  Asking the thesaurus does
not really deliver anything more convincing:

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "retouch":
     adjust, adulterate, brighten up, brush up, cook, correct, doctor,
     fake, finish, fix, freshen, furbish, furbish up, improve, juggle,
     load, manipulate, pack, plant, polish, polish up, recondition,
     refresh, renovate, repair, restore, revive, rig, rub up, salt,
     shine, sophisticate, spruce, spruce up, stack, tamper with,
     tone up, touch up, vamp, vamp up


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