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From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] man-pages.7: wfix
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:26:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618212649.7889-1-jwilk@jwilk.net> (raw)

Reorder full wordings to match the order of abbreviations.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
---
 man7/man-pages.7 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 6216e254d..eecba8996 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ when rendering a page with, say:
 In general, the use of abbreviations such as "e.g.", "i.e.", "etc.",
 "cf.", and "a.k.a." should be avoided,
 in favor of suitable full wordings
-("for example", "that is", "compare to", "and so on", "also known as").
+("for example", "that is", "and so on", "compare to", "also known as").
 .PP
 The only place where such abbreviations may be acceptable is in
 .I short
-- 
2.27.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18 21:26 Jakub Wilk [this message]
2020-06-19 10:48 ` [PATCH] man-pages.7: wfix Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-21  0:09 Alexander Miller
     [not found] ` <20170321010906.2d7185bc.alex.miller-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
2017-03-24 14:40   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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