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* Render \*(Pi as pi, not n
@ 2011-06-02  9:28 Ulrich Spörlein
  2011-06-02  9:54 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ulrich Spörlein @ 2011-06-02  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

please consider doing the same as groff here, fixing ambiguities

Before:

     The atan2(), atan2f(), and atan2l() functions, if successful,
     return the arc tangent of y/x in the range [-n, +n] radians.

After:

     The atan2(), atan2f(), and atan2l() functions, if successful,
     return the arc tangent of y/x in the range [-pi, +pi] radians.

Although 'n' might look a little like 'π' we shouldn't replace random
letters for greek symbols that have different meaning.

Cheers,
Uli


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Index: chars.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/chars.in,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -p -r1.39 chars.in
--- chars.in	24 May 2011 21:40:14 -0000	1.39
+++ chars.in	2 Jun 2011 09:20:39 -0000
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ CHAR("*m",			"u",		956)
 CHAR("*n",			"v",		957)
 CHAR("*c",			"E",		958)
 CHAR("*o",			"o",		959)
-CHAR("*p",			"n",		960)
+CHAR("*p",			"pi",		960)
 CHAR("*r",			"p",		961)
 CHAR("*s",			"o",		963)
 CHAR("*t",			"t",		964)

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2011-06-02  9:28 Render \*(Pi as pi, not n Ulrich Spörlein
2011-06-02  9:54 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-06-02 11:15   ` Ulrich Spörlein
2011-06-02 11:57     ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-06-02 13:13       ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-06-02 13:22         ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-06-02 16:09         ` Ingo Schwarze

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