On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:25:53 +0000, Duncan wrote: > 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.)
Well, something I failed to mention, what hardcore learnéd *ix people usually do, when talking about the "computer binary" aka command itself, is use the "grave accent" + filename + "apostrophe" type quoting, e.g. `pan' . I see this almost all the time in the GNU groups. ;) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
