Hi,

On 19 April 2016 at 17:55, Yong Bakos <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was a little discussion recently about standardizing occurrences of 
> "surface local coordinates" to the grammatically correct "surface-local 
> coordinates." (It's a compound adjective.)
>
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-April/028241.html
>
> Doing so would affect documentation in:
> wayland: protocol/wayland.xml
> wayland-protocols: pointer-constraints, tablet, xdg-shell
> weston: protocol/ivi-application.xml, compositor.c (1 comment header)
>
> Currently, both the dashed and dashless versions are used in description 
> paragraphs. Standardizing this would help protocol authors adhere to one 
> grammatically correct convention, and also improve succinctness of arg 
> summaries. For example "x coordinate in surface local coordinates" can become 
> "surface-local x coordinate."
>
> I know this contribution isn't huge, but wanted to give you the chance to 
> discourage me from doing this before I send a handful of patches. You might 
> suggest alternative terms entirely, but prior discussion seems to indicate 
> that "surface-local" is concise and less susceptible to misinterpretation 
> than alternatives (eg. "surface relative").

No, please do go for it. And also, surely 'surface relative' is in
fact 'surface-relative'? :)

Cheers,
Daniel
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