docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook

[Marc Fonvieille]

The following reply was made to PR docs/77535; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org>
To: David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
Cc: "Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou at cox.net>, freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:24:32 +0100

 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:12:43AM +0800, David Adam wrote:
 > Hi Jesus,
 > 
 > Seeing this patch triggered my memory - the issue has been brought up
 > before. I think we need to examine docs/38225
 > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225) first.
 > 
 > My personal preference is with O'Reilly Publishing's recommendation of
 > CD-ROM - http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html (see the
 > word list at the bottom of the page).
 > 
 > docs/38225 is almost three years old and hasn't been touched for over two
 > years. Perhaps the doc committers (ceri?) can let us know?
 >
 
 Well, this is a "sensitive" problem that has been massively discussed on
 -doc in past; for historic reason CDROM has been used in FreeBSD docs
 (see Walnuts Creek CDs set...).
 For consistency, it will be a huge work to change every
 instance of the word in the doc/ tree, and I'm not sure it'll worth the
 pain, the time, the bits used, etc.
 
 Marc