[RELEASE] 4.2.0 announcements and preliminary tarballs

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 01/10/05 15:38, Matt Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:21 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
> > actually, the main only reason *not* to use the hypenation (as
> > in the first) case, is because people tend not to like hyphens.
> 
> Really?  I use them a lot.  Maybe I'll have to set up a script when I
> start doing my thesis wholeheartedly.  I seem to be a hyphen and
> semicolon user to-the-extreme; moreover...

then feel free to congratulate yourself in that you're not afraid to
hyphenate ^_~.

> > there's
> > a great book about english punctuation in general - "eats, shoots, and
> > leaves" by someone i can't remember - that's a must-have for anyone who's
> > as anal about punctuation as i am.
> 
> Well, then, those should have been em dashes (--) rather than
> hyphens. ;-P  I know this because the PGDP people rapped my knuckles on
> one of my first proofreads.

yeah, i tend to use (space)(dash)(space) as an emdash, mainly for
aesthetic reasons.  hyphenated words are spaceless.  i don't care if
it's strictly "correct": that's just my style.

> (And it's by Lynne Truss, NPR favorite.)

yep, good call ^_^.

anyway, we're getting a bit OT, so i'll stop now...

	-brian