[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech slave.txt,1.34,1.35

[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:

> +When run with the -slave option MPlayer will read commands separated by a
> +newline (\n) from stdin. This allows controlling MPlayer like a user would with
> +keypresses and command line options and is useful for building simple frontends.

"This allows controlling MPlayer" - I'm not sure this usage is correct
(I've objected to similar usages before), but I'm suddenly no longer
100% sure that it isn't. It looks awkward to me as it stands, but...

"This allows one to control MPlayer" or

"This allows MPlayer to be controlled" or

"This allows the possibility of controlling MPlayer"

all sound acceptable to me - but that last isn't all that different from
the original form (just a sub-phrase inserted in the middle), which
leads me to think that maybe the original form was correct enough after
all. Thoughts?

(I'm also not completely happy with the usage of "like" here, but none
of the alternatives I've looked at are superior enough to point out;
plus, in at least the current phrasing, you want a comma after "options".)

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       The Wanderer

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side of it.

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