Re: [PATCH] Various documentation typo/grammar fixes

Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> wrote:

> I ran the Topy typo-fixer (https://github.com/intgr/topy , using rules
> developed for Wikipedia) over the PostgreSQL documentation directory.
> Attached is a patch with hand-picked fixes that are clearly an
> improvement.

For the initial patch, I agree with all except the first change of
"others'" to "other's" -- the start of the sentence uses "All", so
there is clearly more than one "other", so the the apostrophe
belongs after the "s".  The rest of the 0001- patch all look like
improvements to me.

I think most or all of the places that the 0002- patch (i.e. and
e.g.) need a change to look right, but I'm not sure this goes far
enough.  In style guides I've had to use these generally should
follow punctuation (left parenthesis, colon, semi-colon, comma, or
em dash), and be separated from any following text by punctuation
-- usually a comma.

In patch 0003- I agree that the change to "exactly the same" reads
better.  I'm torn on changing the hyphens to spaces.  I probably
wouldn't change them, but I wouldn't squawk if others preferred to
do so.

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