Bug 66540
| Summary: | [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Michel Lavondes <fox> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
Michel Lavondes
2004-05-11 18:40:23 UTC
# fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us / 2004-05-11 10:38:23 -0700: > --- share/man/man4/ppbus.4.orig Fri May 7 07:43:07 2004 > +++ share/man/man4/ppbus.4 Fri May 7 08:06:15 2004 > @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ > modes. > The computer acts as master and the peripheral as slave. > .Pp > -Any transfer is defined as a finite state automate. > +Any transfer is defined as a finite state machine. s/automate/automaton/ would be... more faithful to the original? :) (ESL, so I might be babbling) -- FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 9:36PM up 13:57, 4 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.07, 0.02 On Tue, 11 May 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us / 2004-05-11 10:38:23 -0700: > > --- share/man/man4/ppbus.4.orig Fri May 7 07:43:07 2004 > > +++ share/man/man4/ppbus.4 Fri May 7 08:06:15 2004 > > -Any transfer is defined as a finite state automate. > > +Any transfer is defined as a finite state machine. > > s/automate/automaton/ would be... more faithful to the original? :) > (ESL, so I might be babbling) Mebbe, but even then, I'd go for "finite state machine" as the more common English idiom. This is tech writing, not high litterature that has to be translated painstakingly for beauty and fidelity. :-) -- "I'd ask if you'd found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you're in Utah, after all." --ESR to Darl McBride (Chief Excessive Ossifier of Squandered Clues Obstination), in http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/mcbride.html On 2004.05.11 13:00:41 -0700, fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > # fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us / 2004-05-11 10:38:23 -0700: > > > --- share/man/man4/ppbus.4.orig Fri May 7 07:43:07 2004 > > > +++ share/man/man4/ppbus.4 Fri May 7 08:06:15 2004 > > > -Any transfer is defined as a finite state automate. > > > +Any transfer is defined as a finite state machine. > > > > s/automate/automaton/ would be... more faithful to the original? :) > > (ESL, so I might be babbling) > > Mebbe, but even then, I'd go for "finite state machine" as the more common > English idiom. This is tech writing, not high litterature that has to be > translated painstakingly for beauty and fidelity. :-) Without having read the manual page in question in detail I think the original is probably almost OK, except that it should be "automata". That is a rather common term used in computer science. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team On Tue, 11 May 2004, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.05.11 13:00:41 -0700, fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us wrote: > > > > finite state "automate"/machine/automaton > > Without having read the manual page in question in detail I think the > original is probably almost OK, except that it should be "automata". > That is a rather common term used in computer science. I think automata is a plural, but I don't really care which wording you settle on. I just report them as/when I sees them. :-) -- "I'd ask if you'd found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you're in Utah, after all." --ESR to Darl McBride (Chief Excessive Ossifier of Squandered Clues Obstination), in http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/mcbride.html State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed, thanks! Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida I'll MFC this in a few days. |
