From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@fourpalms.org
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Spelling
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24:37 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200109121424.f8CEObG06787@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B9E41CF.9565AB88@fourpalms.org>
> ...
> > * "multi" is not a word by itself, so there is no hyphenation when it's
> > used as a prefix:
> > multibyte character, multicharacter operator name, multiversion
> > concurrency control, multicolumn index
>
> No arguments here, but...
>
> I *think* that it is typical and accepted to use hyphenation in cases
> where the base word does not have that qualification as common usage.
I agree with Thomas. The other changes Peter suggested are fine.
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