GNU bug report logs - #13371
removing @acronym from manual

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)

Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 23:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 13371 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13371: removing @acronym from manual
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:20:18 -0600
tags 13371 fixed
close 13371
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Hello,

On 06/01/13 04:09 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Since there's no special benefit to using @acronym{GNU} or @sc{gnu} over
> just plain "GNU", it's merely about typographic preferences, my
> suggestion was that it was better to avoid the whole issue, simplify the
> source, and go with "GNU".

There are no more "@acronym" in the manual,
and GNU is used without @sc/@acronym through-out.

Closing this bug.

-assaf






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