Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8CEOk792130 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.10.1) id f8CEObG06787; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200109121424.f8CEObG06787@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Spelling In-Reply-To: <3B9E41CF.9565AB88@fourpalms.org> "from Thomas Lockhart at Sep 11, 2001 04:54:39 pm" To: lockhart@fourpalms.org Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24:37 -0400 (EDT) CC: Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL90 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200109/22 X-Sequence-Number: 954 > ... > > * "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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026