[PATCH wayland* weston 00/10] hyphenate compound adjectives

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:57:51AM -0500, Yong Bakos wrote:
> From: Yong Bakos <ybakos at humanoriented.com>
> 
> The following ten patches:
> 
> 1) hyphenate all occurrences of surface local and window local
> 2) remove 'local' from one occurrence of 'buffer local' where the use of
>    'local' is superfluous.
> 3) correct minor grammar errors within lines changed by 1 above
> 
> The patches affect wayland, weston, wayland-web and wayland-protocols,
> per recent discussion. In all cases, these are only documentation changes,
> and patch 10/10 is the one that affects wayland.xml.
> 
> The rationale is that 'foo local coordinates' uses a compound adjective,
> 'foo local', which should be hyphenated. Standardizing upon the correct
> grammar helps authors adhere to what is correct.
> 
> In addition to consulting the existing precedent in Wayland projects, I also
> consulted the 'greater literature', which indicates that:
> 
> 1) 'surface local' is common, but also grammatically incorrect
> 2) 'window-local' is common
> 3) 'buffer local', in any form, is not common (at all) and is superfluous
> 
> Patch summary:
> 
> wayland-web, Yong Bakos (1):
>   architecture: Hyphenate compound adjective window-local
> 
>  architecture.html | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> weston, Yong Bakos (5):
>   desktop-shell: Use 'surface-local' to correct grammar
>   fullscreen-shell: Use 'surface-local' to correct grammar
>   ivi-layout: Correct coordinate adjective grammar, misspellings
>   ivi-application: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local
>   compositor: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local
> 
>  desktop-shell/shell.c               |  2 +-
>  fullscreen-shell/fullscreen-shell.c |  2 +-
>  ivi-shell/ivi-layout.c              | 16 ++++++++--------
>  protocol/ivi-application.xml        |  2 +-
>  src/compositor.c                    |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> wayland-protocols, Yong Bakos (2):
>   pointer-constraints: Use 'surface-local' in simplified parameter
>     summary
>   tablet: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local
> 
>  .../pointer-constraints/pointer-constraints-unstable-v1.xml    |  4 ++--
>  unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v1.xml                         | 10 +++++-----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> wayland, Yong Bakos (2):
>   doc: Hyphenate compound adjectives window-local, surface-local
>   protocol: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local

For the full collection:

Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>

Will go ahead and land it tomorrow if there are no objections.
 
>  doc/publican/sources/Architecture.xml |  4 +--
>  doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml     |  2 +-
>  protocol/wayland.xml                  | 50 +++++++++++++++++------------------
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
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