Re: Typo.

From: Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Typo.
Date: 2016-06-07 13:22:35
Message-ID: CAAfz9KOSLojrymEmWVY8BtiBnmXgZ-X1K6+x72jXK-6=oO-GRg@mail.gmail.com
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2016-06-07 15:44 GMT+03:00 Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> In "Internal position: this is defined the same as the P field, but it
>> is used when the cursor position refers to an internally generated",
>> "internally generated" should be replaced with "internally-generated".
>
> Not according to, for example, the Chicago Manual of Style:
>
> http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf
>
> (See the "adverb ending in ly + participle or adjective" category.)
>
> I'm pretty sure that this has been discussed on this list before
> and decided in favor of omitting the hyphenation in such cases.
Hm, well, how about removing hypenation from
"Internal query: the text of a failed internally-generated command",
"procedural language functions and internally-generated queries",
at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/protocol-error-fields.html
and similar in other places?

--
// Dmitry.

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