docs/86028: [patch] Add Ruby to the list of interpreters available with FreeBSD

Josh Paetzel josh at tcbug.org
Wed Sep 14 18:13:32 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 13 September 2005 14:02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> writes:
> > On Monday 12 September 2005 23:50, David Adam wrote:
> >>  Perhaps this would look better as 'easy-to-understand syntax'.
> >> (Well, I think it would.)
> >
> > Either way looks good to me...Is there a 'precedent' in other
> > docs that this could conform to?
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/article.sgml:
>     easy-to-use GUI installer for FreeBSD aimed at the desktop
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml:
>     configuration, using an easy-to-use built-in command set,
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml:
>     <emphasis>easy-to-port</emphasis> applications are available
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml:
>     <para>A simple, easy-to-handle desktop</para>
>
>
> And many more in "less-easy" adjective phrases:
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml:
>     <glossterm>Point-to-Point Protocol</glossterm>
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/portbuild/article.sgml:
>     build.  This will ensure an apples-to-apples comparison
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/article.sgml:
>     keeping up-to-date config files
>
> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml:
>     do much of the day-to-day work on FreeBSD.  Note that this
>
>
> But as much as I like hyphens, I must admit that they're not really
> needed in such a common phrase as "easy-to-something
> somethingelse".

I didn't expect you to look that stuffs up....I'm impressed. :)

At any rate this can be committed then, right?

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel



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