Bug 38571

Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org> wrote: 

[...]
	
>Description:
A typo in cvsup-advanced article. Read the patch below for more details.

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--- article.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- article.sgml.org	Sun May 26 13:50:18 2002
+++ article.sgml	Sun May 26 13:50:42 2002
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
 
          <para>If you have been reading the apparently nit-picking 
 	   remarks in these sections, you will probably have recognized 
-	   the potential for scr^Wtrouble in a source updating process. 
+	   the potential for trouble in a source updating process. 
 	   A number of people have actually run into problems. You have
 	   been warned. :-)</para>
       </sect2>
--- article.sgml.diff ends here ---



Hello Marc,

I am the author of the article -- in person if I may say so :-)

As far as the 'typo' is concerned, I did it on purpose: I actually meant to 
reproduce a 'Freudian' lapsus (lapsus calami), i.e. reproduce the process of 
writing something and then making corrections (^W: delete a word).  By the 
way, another such 'device' is e.g. ^H to mean you are deleting a letter.

If the Documentation Project deems this, er, 'stylistic' device acceptable 
(for current standards of formality), there will be no need to remove it.  On 
the other hand, if it sounds too informal, then let it be removed.

Best regards,
Salvo

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:01:32PM +0200, Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
> As far as the 'typo' is concerned, I did it on purpose: I actually meant to 
> reproduce a 'Freudian' lapsus (lapsus calami), i.e. reproduce the process of 
> writing something and then making corrections (^W: delete a word).  By the 
> way, another such 'device' is e.g. ^H to mean you are deleting a letter.
> 
> If the Documentation Project deems this, er, 'stylistic' device acceptable 
> (for current standards of formality), there will be no need to remove it.  On 
> the other hand, if it sounds too informal, then let it be removed.
> 

I was *1000 miles away* from thinking it was a normal typo :))

I'm currently translating the article in french, i will remove the lapsus
cause it's difficult to write/display it efficiently. Maybe in an irc
way like "scre** err trouble, i mean" but it's not really good.

Btw i will submit a PR about s/eg/e.g. and some quote tags addition
etc...

Cheers,
Marc

Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-05-26 22:48:11 UTC

On 2002-05-26 13:53, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> -	   the potential for scr^Wtrouble in a source updating process. 
> +	   the potential for trouble in a source updating process. 

This was actually meant as a joke, but I have to admit it looks weird
in running text.  Pressing ^W will erase the previous word in most
terminals I've worked with, and this was the author's funny way of
writing "screwups" or similarly offensive text without actually being
offensive ;)

I agree that this is confusing though, so I've committed this in
revision 1.5 of doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article.sgml

Giorgos.

Comment 4 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-05-26 22:48:13 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed in revision 1.5 of file 
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article.sgml 

Thank you :) 

Comment 5 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-05-26 22:48:13 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida