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
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2020-06-18 21:26 Jakub Wilk [this message]
2020-06-19 10:48 ` [PATCH] man-pages.7: wfix Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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2017-03-21 0:09 Alexander Miller
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2017-03-24 14:40 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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