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

[The Wanderer]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> 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.

Does this mean that you're OK with my other suggestion?

>> 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).

Usually you don't, but there are always exceptions; that's how compound
words arise. In this case, I'm simply extrapolating from the fact that
the man page mentions "colorspace" ten times but "color.space" not at
all; I wouldn't be 100% opposed to using either the space- or
hyphen-separated form, although I sort of prefer the current usage, but
if so we'd need to change it everywhere in the docs (and program output)
rather than just in this one place.

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