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From: Kevin Grittner <[email protected]>
To: Dmitry Igrishin <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Typo.
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:37:58 -0500
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2016-06-07 15:44 GMT+03:00 Kevin Grittner <[email protected]>:
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <[email protected]> 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?

I think we should be consistent, especially on adjacent lines.  Oddly,
a single commit 12 years ago used both in close proximity.

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Kevin Grittner
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