[drupal-docs] standard for spelling in docs?

[Anisa]

Charlie Lowe wrote:

>'Course, Drupal can be an "open-source" "content-management" system if 
>you want it to be ;)
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Hah!  You don't know what a pain it is to find the hypen on my Japanese 
keyboard...

So it's not capitalized either?

Anisa.

>Anisa wrote:
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>>With regards to open source...  I did a little digging about, and 
>>perhaps you could consider this explanation official:
>>
>>http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
>>/
>>A note about usage. In accordance with normal English practice, the term 
>>is "open source" standing alone, but "open-source" used as an adjective 
>>or in compounds; thus, "open-source software"./
>>
>>Personally, hyphens are tedious, and open source can just be written 
>>open source for all I care, but if you want a *standard*...
>>
>>Anisa.
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>>Dries Buytaert wrote:
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>>>On 21 May 2005, at 17:03, Charlie Lowe wrote:
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>>>>email or e-mail
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>>>The Drupal code itself uses 'e-mail', not 'email'.
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>>>>I also noticed that "open source" was hyphenated in a couple of the ad
>>>>leaflet submissions when it was used as an adjective. Open source  
>>>>should
>>>>never be hyphenated in any instance I can think of, although I  
>>>>often see
>>>>people doing it this way.
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>>>(Drupal is Free Software.  Not all Open Source software is Free  
>>>Software.)
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>>>--
>>>Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
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