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Andrew Eikum
16dad32e43 Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.

Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>

I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.

This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.

The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
2012-10-16 01:03:01 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
34511ca7b1 man: reword man page titles
Make sure the man page titles are similar in style and capitalization so
that our man page index looks pretty.
2012-07-16 18:08:25 +02:00
Tom Gundersen
6c242857b2 man: fix reference to systemd-tty-ask-password-agent 2012-06-28 13:23:26 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
c52f663bfa man: document tty-ask-password-agent 2012-06-27 02:12:39 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
7df46b2af5 man: document systemd-ask-password-console.service and friends 2012-06-27 01:32:15 +02:00