[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en mencoder.xml,1.79,1.80

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Mon Jul 11 10:57:33 CEST 2005


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:25:01AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Sunday 10 July 2005 19:30, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 07:07:42PM +0200, Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:
> > > +  VCD only supports constant bitrate audio (CBR) whereas SVCD supports
> > > +  variable bitrate (VBR) too.
> >
> > (VBR), too
> 
> A comma there? Why? I can think of a reason to place one between "(CBR)" and 
> "whereas",

I believe it's possible to place one there, although I'm not sure it's
strictly necessary.

> but not between "(VBR)" and "too". I mean, you wouldn't write 
> "whereas SVCD supports variable bitrate, too",

Yes, you would.

> so why would you if you 
> mention the acronym for "variable bitrate" inside parenthesis?

Nothing to do with the parentheses.  "too" as the last word of a
sentence meaning "as well" always gets separated by a comma AFAIK.

Diego




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