On 09/12/2020 22:42, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > We can probably just switch to using GW, and I think we should. MINGW > is too easy to read incorrectly (as "Ming W"), and to confuse with > "Minimalist GNU for Windows". (I'll be annoyed if the semantics > of GW and MINGW differ, but I suspect it'll still be worth it.)
Right. The correctly capitalized acronym, with which you wish to avoid confusion, is "MinGW"; upper-case "M", followed by lower-case "in", then upper-case again for "GW", and there is *definitely* no embedded space, at any point. Another consideration is that "MinGW" is a trademark, registered in the USA by SPI Inc. on behalf of "Minimalist GNU for Windows". While it is clear that groff's use of "MINGW" in s.tmac has nothing to do with the MinGW project, the USPTO makes no distinction on the basis of variant capitalization of the trademark. -- Keith.
