[PATCH] clean up hyphenation in docs
Jeff Johnston
jjohnstn@redhat.com
Fri Oct 28 21:37:00 GMT 2005
Patch checked in.
-- Jeff J.
Bob Wilson wrote:
> Another documentation patch.....
>
> I noticed lots of problems with hyphenation in the newlib docs, both
> missing hyphens and excessive use of hyphens, as well as words that
> were being split in two. This patch changes to use the following words:
>
> "lowercase", not "lower case" nor "lower-case"
> ditto for "uppercase"
> "alphanumeric", not "alpha-numeric"
> "whitespace", not "white-space"
> "case-insensitive", not "case insensitive"
> "locale-specific", not "locale specific"
>
> It also makes a lot of hyphenation changes for the term "wide
> character". This is trickier. There are clearly cases where this
> should and should not be hyphenated, and then there are a lot of places
> where it isn't clear (to me anyway) which one is correct. I've tried
> to use hyphens sparingly when it isn't clear, i.e., err on the side of
> omitting them.
>
> (As an aside, a while back I submitted a patch to make the docs be more
> consistent in not hyphenating "nonzero". I noticed that a lot of
> hyphenated uses of "non-zero" have crept in with new code, but I'm not
> especially motivated to change them right now.)
>
> 2005-10-11 Bob Wilson <bob.wilson@acm.org>
>
> * libc/ctype/ctype.tex: Use hyphens as appropriate, but not
> otherwise.
> * libc/ctype/islower.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/isupper.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswalnum.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswalpha.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswblank.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswcntrl.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswdigit.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswgraph.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswlower.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswprint.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswpunct.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswspace.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswupper.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/iswxdigit.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/tolower.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/toupper.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/towctrans.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/towlower.c: Likewise.
> * libc/ctype/towupper.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/strcasecmp.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/strcoll.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/strings.tex: Likewise.
> * libc/string/strlwr.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/strncasecmp.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/strupr.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wcscoll.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wcslcat.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wcslcpy.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wcsnlen.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wcsstr.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wcstrings.tex: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wmemchr.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wmemcmp.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wmemcpy.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wmemmove.c: Likewise.
> * libc/string/wmemset.c: Likewise.
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