Re: she's it, not her ...

[Larry McVoy]

+1  Mom is maman.

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:53:14PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Salut Marc,
> 
> Marc Chantreux wrote on Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:33:40PM +0100:
> 
> > i'm not english native so maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me that macros
> > are neutral and should be called 'it', not 'she'. i provide a patch for
> > the cases a spotted but i can investigate more if this patch is
> > relevant.
> 
> I sense a pun here: the English word "mom" has the same meaning as
> le mot Fran??ais "maman".
> 
> It seems quite possible to me that Peter chose the wording intentionally.
> 
> Yours,
>   Ingo
> 
> 
> > diff --git a/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html b/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html
> > index 020a36c9..c1b7c8fd 100644
> > --- a/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html
> > +++ b/contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html
> > @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ see
> >  <div class="box-tip">
> >  <p class="tip">
> >  <span class="note">Note:</span>
> > -Mom&#8217;s colour support is for text only.  She doesn&#8217;t
> > +Mom&#8217;s colour support is for text only.  It doesn&#8217;t
> >  support &#8220;fill&#8221; (or &#8220;background&#8221;) colour for
> >  solid, enclosed graphical objects (polygons, ellipses) drawn with
> >  groff&#8217;s <kbd>\D</kbd>
> [...]

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