cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive archive_write.3

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20040705191116.GB7690 at submonkey.net>
            Ceri Davies <ceri at freebsd.org> writes:
: On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 06:08:32PM +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote:
: > kientzle    2004-07-05 18:08:32 UTC
: > 
: >   FreeBSD src repository
: > 
: >   Modified files:
: >     lib/libarchive       archive_write.3 
: >   Log:
: >   ru@'s ambitious sweep through the manpages is mostly a good thing,
: >   but some colons are supposed to be followed by uppercase letters.
: 
: > | @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Freeze the settings, open the archive, a
: > |  This is the most generic form of this function, which accepts
: > |  pointers to three callback functions which will be invoked by
: > |  the library to write the constructed archive.
: > | -Note: internally, the callbacks are invoked by the compression layer.
: > | +Note: Internally, the callbacks are invoked by the compression layer.
: 
: Not that one, though.

I just asked a friend that teaches English and writes professionally.
It used to be the case that there was always a capital after ':'.
This rule has been relaxed in the last few dozen years so that it is
now optional.  Her option would be to capitalize it when it is a
complete clause on its own, but that's just her opinion.

In other words, from a langauge point of view (at leas for en_US), it
just doesn't matter.

Warner