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3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-'
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Alejandro Colomar |
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3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-' |
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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:47:27 +0200 |
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Hi,
In a patch to linux-man@ there's a 3-word compound adjective. I don't
know what are the rules for such a thing, and I'd like to have some
consistency (and correctness) in the manual pages.
I've seen many different things in the past;:
a) block device-based filesystems
b) block-device-based filesystems
c) block- device-based filesystems
And now I found one more
<https://www.editorgroup.com/blog/to-hyphenate-or-not-to-hyphenate/>:
d) block device\[en]based filesystems
Where the en dash is used to distinguish it from 'a block filesystem
based on a device'.
Which form would you recommend me to use?
Cheers,
Alex
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