Use double quotes consistently in hostmot2(9)

[petterreinholdtsen]

Use double quotes consistently instead of a mix of single and double quotes. Picked double over single quotes as it had most existing use.

[silopolis]

Le dim. 17 juil. 2022 à 08:16, petterreinholdtsen ***@***.***> a écrit :

Converted bogus contraction to genitive and expand contractions to make text easier to read.

Not sure to my english that meaning is preserved with some of your fixes 🤔 The "'s" usually denotes a link of belonging wich is somehow lost by simply replacing it by a plural form. I'd make good use of the help of a native english literate on this one...

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Jérémie Tarot]

The "'s" usually denotes a link of belonging wich is somehow lost by simply replacing it by a plural form.

You are right, and I am wrong. I dropped that part of the patch.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[SebKuzminsky]

What is the significance of switching from single-quotes (') to double-quotes (") here? In other words, why is that part of this patch useful?

[silopolis]

Le lun. 18 juil. 2022 à 16:39, Sebastian Kuzminsky ***@***.***> a écrit :

What is the significance of switching from single-quotes (') to double-quotes (") here? In other words, why is that part of this patch useful?

Real question is which one _should_ be used!? In French, we only use double quotes, what about english?

[petterreinholdtsen]

And once we know which quotes to use, it could get included in the style guide in #1530.

[silopolis]

Le mer. 20 juil. 2022 à 10:33, petterreinholdtsen ***@***.***> a écrit :

And once we know which quotes to use, it could get included in the style guide in #1530 <#1530>.

https://proofreadanywhere.com/single-quotes-vs-double-quotes/ looks good to me

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Jérémie Tarot]

https://proofreadanywhere.com/single-quotes-vs-double-quotes/ looks good to me

Good call to track down a USA style guide. If American English is the wanted choice, it seem like a good done: If British English is the choice, the Cambridgef style available from <URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/brand-resources/editorial-style-guide > might be a better choice: Quotation marks As we write in British English, we use single quotation marks for thoughts or reported quotations that are sourced from text. We use double quotation marks for speech (direct quotes). For example, a headline might say Gold's 'intrinsic' value questioned but within the text, if the article's author has interviewed someone and is reporting their words verbatim, you would see "I would not say that gold has an intrinsic value". Bear in mind that when using single quotation marks, quotes within quotes use double quote marks; this pattern is reversed for quotes within reported speech marks. A full stop is used outside the quotation mark if the quote is only part of a sentence. (The scientists believed that there was a real need 'to get out of the office and into the field'.) It is placed inside the quotation mark if the quote is a complete sentence. When you break a quote into two paragraphs, you omit the closing speech marks at the end of the first paragraph and start the second paragraph with opening speech marks. Here is an example: “…the rainforest was threatened by logging companies. “However, the government is now taking action to halt illegal activities in this precious habitat...” Single quotes also signify unfamiliar words or phrases. They should not be used for words which are well understood, eg real life and GM. Do not use end punctuation to close a pull-out quote. Given that the project originated in USA, I suspect the Chicago Manual of Style is a better choice, but I can not find it available on the Internet. The Cambridgef style on the other hand is published on the web. As the quoting choice in this patch is controversial, I will move the rest of the changes into a different pull request to have them processed separately.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[petterreinholdtsen]

It seem like no-one is objecting any more to my proposal, and no-one is around to make a decition on which quote style should be used. Based on this, I recommend my patch to switch to " consistently is accepted and a separate patch is made to add the Chicago style to the documentation style guide.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[silopolis]

Le lun. 25 juil. 2022 à 12:20, petterreinholdtsen ***@***.***> a écrit :

It seem like no-one is objecting any more to my proposal, and no-one is around to make a decition on which quote style should be used. Based on this, I recommend my patch to switch to " consistently is accepted and a separate patch is made to add the Chicago style to the documentation style guide

Perfect for me 👌

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Sebastian Kuzminsky]

What is the significance of switching from single-quotes (`'`) to double-quotes (`"`) here? In other words, why is that part of this patch useful?

Consistency, and allowing the reader to not wonder what significance the selected quote character has. I just picked one of them fairly at random, could have picked the other one too.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen