[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1052,1.1053

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:44:48AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> 
> >-some basic debug infos, avi header, function values (init debug)
> >+some basic debug info, AVI header, function values (init debug)
> > .IPs \-v\ \-v
> >-print avi indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos (player debug)
> >+Print AVI indexes, chunk inputs, more debug info (player debug).
> 
> Although this is the form which will be more readily recognized -
> especially by non-native speakers - and it is not in fact incorrect, the
> more correct plural of "index" is "indices". (See parallel with "vertex"
> and "vertices", "vortex" and "vortices", "helix" and "helices", and a
> total of about three others in the entire English language.) It might
> not be worth changing, in light of the correct form's comparative
> obscurity, but I wanted to point the fact out anyway.

It's also like this in German, my first intuition was indices, but I
thought both were possible in English.
 
> >-prints everything related to input parsers (parser debug)
> >+Prints everything related to input parsers (parser debug).
> 
> Inconsistency between this line and the previous one: "print" vs.
> "prints". I'm not sure which one would be better, but I think that
> whichever tense of the verb is settled on should also be prepended to
> the other two lines, above.

Yes, I'm not sure which form to settle for either, both are used
throughout the man page.  Some consistency would be nice... 

Diego