docs/86028: [patch] Add Ruby to the list of interpreters available with FreeBSD

[Gary W. Swearingen]

The following reply was made to PR docs/86028; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: garys at opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To: Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org>
Cc: David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>, freebsd-doc at freebsd.org,
        FreeBSD gnats submit <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: docs/86028: [patch] Add Ruby to the list of interpreters
 available with FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:02:33 -0700

 Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> writes:
 
 > On Monday 12 September 2005 23:50, David Adam wrote:
 >>
 >>  Perhaps this would look better as 'easy-to-understand syntax'.
 >> (Well, I think it would.)
 >
 > Either way looks good to me...Is there a 'precedent' in other docs 
 > that this could conform to?
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/article.sgml:
     easy-to-use GUI installer for FreeBSD aimed at the desktop
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml:
     configuration, using an easy-to-use built-in command set,
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml:
     <emphasis>easy-to-port</emphasis> applications are available
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml:
     <para>A simple, easy-to-handle desktop</para>
 
 
 And many more in "less-easy" adjective phrases:
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml:
     <glossterm>Point-to-Point Protocol</glossterm>
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/portbuild/article.sgml:
     build.  This will ensure an apples-to-apples comparison
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/article.sgml:
     keeping up-to-date config files 
 
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml:
     do much of the day-to-day work on FreeBSD.  Note that this
 
 
 But as much as I like hyphens, I must admit that they're not really
 needed in such a common phrase as "easy-to-something somethingelse".