Re: little mistakes in HS/SR

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > We should enclose -1 with <literal> tag.
>>
>> A quick survey of the documentation as a whole suggests that we
>> enclose -1 with <literal> in a few places but more commonly we don't.
>> I have no position on whether we should do it or not, but maybe we
>> should try to be consistent throughout the docs?  Or at least have a
>> consistent rule for deciding what to do in a particular case?
>
> Excellent question.  I went through the documentation and removed
> <literal> tags where appropriate --- there are cases where we are
> referencing an actual number, and there <literal> makes sense.  Applied
> patch attached.
>
> I think the larger question is whether we should say "zero" for 0 and
> "one" for 1, etc.  Prose typography suggests we should, but for
> technical manuals, I am not sure.  Ideas?

I am doubtful that this makes sense in general. I suspect it depends
somewhat on context.

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