Re: [BOOK PATCH] Mistakes

* Mark Benedetto King <mbk@lowlatency.com> [2004-05-23 19:29]:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:44:06AM +0200, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> >
> > <para>Groups can be granted access control just like users.
> > - Distinguish them with an ampersane (<literal>@</literal>)
> > + Distinguish them with an at (<literal>@</literal>)
> > prefix:</para>
> >
> > <screen>
> >
> > dunno whether there is some better name for it, but as to my knowledge
> > "ampersan_d_" is the name for the "&" character.
>
> ISO 8859-1 calls it a "commercial at".

If I understand it correctly, the O'Reilly style guide
(http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html) says it should
be "at sign". This is actually one of the changes made in this typo
patch that doesn't look like it's been applied yet:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=65965

-- Mike

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