[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1049,1.1050

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Tue Jul 26 23:20:49 CEST 2005


Hi,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:54:53PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> >+Intended to work even with the most basic OpenGL implementations,
> >+but also makes use of newer extensions, allowing to support more
> >+color spaces and direct rendering.
> 
> "allowing to" is a mistake of some type; "allowing it to" would be
> better, but the result would still be something I'd have wanted to
> rephrase. How about "which allow support for"?

Yes, I wanted to say "alowing it to", but only because I didn't have any
better idea, I know it doesn't sound good.

> Hmm. Vague memory (supported by a quick grep of the man page) indicate
> that we use "colorspace" so far; we might want to drop the internal
> space in that phrase, here.

Probably color-space would be more correct I guess (at least I am always
told that you usually don't connect words directly in English).

Greetings,
Reiar Döffinger




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