SciFi posted on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:22:38 +0000 as excerpted: > Thanks for all the personal writeups, even on the "my jumping ship" > thread. > I'll save them for later, when I have more time to add (and I _do_). > > I remember the acronym meant by the all-uppercase "PAN". > I do have a tiny whim, tho, with current practice: > I want to capitalize "Pan" as a proper noun, > because I don't want the spelling "pan" to be confused with a kitchen > utensil. :D
How about a computer binary that "just happens" to do newsgroups? =:^) For me, it was really one or the other, either all caps to represent the full name, or all small, to represent the name of the binary (and no, I do NOT want the binary's name to be changed to "Pan"! In fact, I /so/ changed, that I want to not capitalize it at the beginning of sentences, now, and I'm NOT the type that normally fails to capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence. But here, I'm now referring to a string-literal that's the name of an executable binary, so for much the same reason I use "logical quotes", that is, punctuation outside the quote unless it's literally part of it, I want to use "pan" as such, even at the beginning of a sentence. (I don't believe I'm fully personally consistent with such a policy, however, tho, at least not yet. But the same policy applies to my discussion of kde binaries in the kde lists/groups, kmail, konqueror, etc, often tend to be string-literal lowercase, even when beginning a sentence. "kde" in lower case, however, and "gnome" in lower case, etc, is something different. There, I do try to generally capitalize at the beginning of sentences, but then it's full-caps, KDE and GNOME, and I suspect it'd be the same with PAN.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
