Re: get rid of <foreignphrase> tags in the docs?

From: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: get rid of <foreignphrase> tags in the docs?
Date: 2021-03-10 13:47:35
Message-ID: CAFBsxsEbF-=DLBMMohGN0_7gGGgfj5w1c-oiAFVgdv46oetcGw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:31 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > While looking at the proposed removal of the v2 protocol, I noticed
that we
> > italicize some, but not all, instances of 'per se', 'pro forma', and 'ad
> > hoc'. I'd say these are widespread enough in formal registers of English
> > that they hardly need to be called out as foreign, so I propose removing
> > the tags for those words.
>
> +1, nobody italicizes those in normal usage.

Now that protocol v2 is gone, here's a patch to remove those tags.

> > The other case is 'voilà', found in rules.sgml. The case for italics
here
> > is stronger, but looking at that file, I actually think a more
> > generic-sounding phrase here would be preferable.
>
> Yeah, seeing that we only use that in one place, I think we could do
> without it. Looks like something as pedestrian as "The results are:"
> would do fine.

Done that way.

--
John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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