docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook

[Jesus R. Camou]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:20:20AM +0000, David Adam wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/77535; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> To: "Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou at cox.net>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the
>  handbook 
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:12:43 +0800 (WST)
> 
>  Hi Jesus,
>  
>  Seeing this patch triggered my memory - the issue has been brought up
>  before. I think we need to examine docs/38225
>  (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225) first.
>  
>  My personal preference is with O'Reilly Publishing's recommendation of
>  CD-ROM - http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html (see the
>  word list at the bottom of the page).
>  
>  docs/38225 is almost three years old and hasn't been touched for over two
>  years. Perhaps the doc committers (ceri?) can let us know?

This change-request is due to the word list in the fdp primer book.
According to it, the FreeBSD Documentation Project should write  
CDROM instead of CD-ROM.  I remember your pr, as well as some others
trying to substitute CDROM with CD-ROM.  I have followed up prs to
use the same rule but at this point it is hard to change everything
to an specific way to spell it (even more if we are talking about
changing everything to CD-ROM), that is why I requested this change. 

It is hard to really tell how it should be written right now, I'm
just trying to follow the rule stated.  Thanks for the comment, I
think it would be a great idea to define how this should be done.
 
-- 
Jesus R. Camou <jcamou at COX.net>
jcamou at es.FreeBSD.org