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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-06-03 13:20:37 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-06-03 13:20:37 +0000
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downloadperl-3e666715a4bd2866748a6181c6b5ebb7e441f6b1.tar.gz
perlpodspec uses 'nonbreaking' and 'non-breaking'.
Normalize on the hyphenated spelling. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22900
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diff --git a/pod/perlpodspec.pod b/pod/perlpodspec.pod
index 40e5371fe3..1e08c2b69a 100644
--- a/pod/perlpodspec.pod
+++ b/pod/perlpodspec.pod
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ L</Notes on Implementing Pod Processors>.
This formatting code is syntactically simple, but semantically
complex. What it means is that each space in the printable
-content of this code signifies a nonbreaking space.
+content of this code signifies a non-breaking space.
Consider:
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Consider:
Both signify the monospace (c[ode] style) text consisting of
"$x", one space, "?", one space, ":", one space, "$z". The
difference is that in the latter, with the S code, those spaces
-are not "normal" spaces, but instead are nonbreaking spaces.
+are not "normal" spaces, but instead are non-breaking spaces.
=back
@@ -732,10 +732,10 @@ paragraphs.
=item *
When rendering Pod to a format that has two kinds of hyphens (-), one
-that's a nonbreaking hyphen, and another that's a breakable hyphen
+that's a non-breaking hyphen, and another that's a breakable hyphen
(as in "object-oriented", which can be split across lines as
"object-", newline, "oriented"), formatters are encouraged to
-generally translate "-" to nonbreaking hyphen, but may apply
+generally translate "-" to non-breaking hyphen, but may apply
heuristics to convert some of these to breaking hyphens.
=item *
@@ -992,15 +992,15 @@ EE<lt>euro>1,000,000 Solution|Million::Euros>".
=item *
-Some Pod formatters output to formats that implement nonbreaking
+Some Pod formatters output to formats that implement non-breaking
spaces as an individual character (which I'll call "NBSP"), and
-others output to formats that implement nonbreaking spaces just as
+others output to formats that implement non-breaking spaces just as
spaces wrapped in a "don't break this across lines" code. Note that
at the level of Pod, both sorts of codes can occur: Pod can contain a
NBSP character (whether as a literal, or as a "EE<lt>160>" or
"EE<lt>nbsp>" code); and Pod can contain "SE<lt>foo
IE<lt>barE<gt> baz>" codes, where "mere spaces" (character 32) in
-such codes are taken to represent nonbreaking spaces. Pod
+such codes are taken to represent non-breaking spaces. Pod
parsers should consider supporting the optional parsing of "SE<lt>foo
IE<lt>barE<gt> baz>" as if it were
"fooI<NBSP>IE<lt>barE<gt>I<NBSP>baz", and, going the other way, the