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- Working on Run Vale over the style guide Part 3 #457 Run Vale of the style guide part 3.
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| Generally, use "number sign" to refer to the # character. Alternatively, use "hash" to refer to a hashtag in social media, or to refer to Secure Hash Algorithm (see <xref linkend="sha" />), or when writing exclusively for a European audience. You can instead use "pound sign" when writing exclusively for a North American audience, if "number sign" is not appropriate for the context. | ||
| Generally, use "number sign" to refer to the # character. | ||
| Or, use "hash" to refer to a hashtag in social media, or to refer to Secure Hash Algorithm (see <xref linkend="sha" />), or when writing exclusively for a European audience. |
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I know that Microsoft advises otherwise, but I don't much like this word replacement at the start of this sentence, which results in a sentence in the format "Or A, or B, or C".
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| A phrase that was coined by the Red Hat community and adopted by opensource.com in 2009. It is a reference to an "open source method", as in "Let's develop this project the open source way." | ||
| A phrase that was coined by the Red Hat community and adopted by opensource.com in 2009. | ||
| It is a reference to an "open source method", as in "Let's develop this project the open source way." |
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Given our guidance to avoid contractions, we should avoid them here in a quoted example.
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| <emphasis>n.</emphasis> Write hyphenated. Do not use "plugin". | ||
| <emphasis>n.</emphasis> Write hyphenated. | ||
| Do not use "plugin". |
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Although some product terminology uses "plugin", and the CCS Supplementary Style Guide now defines the unhyphenated form as the standard.
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Fixed the spurious space. The other comments are outside the scope of this PR. |
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