GNU bug report logs - #3035
23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:40:07 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #95 received at 3035 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: <3035 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc.
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:09:35 -0400

>> > IMO, using slant for a defined term in print is not too 
>> > good, and having the same appearance for defined terms
>> > and emphasized text (unrelated) is also not too good.
>> AFAIK, it's just common practice for definitions.  The italics is used
>> to emphasize the fact that this term is used with a specific meaning,
>> which is being explained.
> Nope.  Not common practice.

You're simply wrong.  Maybe in the texts you read it's not
common practice.  But in the texts I read it is.

> And that reasoning (defined term is important, so use
> emphasis) is an invention.

Not at all.  A good example would be when you define what a /type/ is.
Or what an /object/ is, in a programming book.  If you don't emphasize
correctly, the reader may end up not noticing/understanding exactly what
term you're defining because that term already has meaning to
the reader.


        Stefan
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