[MPlayer-DOCS] Some more manpage errors?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:35:41AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >I'm not sure about the spelling of bigendian, big-endian or big
> >endian, same with littleendian, littleendian or little endian.
> >Wanderer, what do you think?
> 
> Generally speaking I'd go with "little-endian" and "big-endian" - except
> of course when wanting to refer back to the origin of the terms, in
> which case it's "Little-endian" and "Big-endian" AFAIR. I do, however,
> find myself unable to tell quite why...

I'm inclined to agree with the hyphen and it's also what is used in the
wikipedia article about endianness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

So let's stick to big-endian and little-endian.

> (In case you haven't noticed, I'm perhaps excessively fond of hyphens.)

I have ;-)

Diego