Re: libm man page fixes

"Ian D. Leroux" <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:46:52 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015, at 13:41, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> While looking at this diff I noticed that we have the following wording:
> 
> The
> .Fn sin
> family of functions return the sine value.
> 
> We currently have both versions ("returns" and "return") in different
> man pages.
> 
> Grammarwise I would say "family" is singular and "returns" is the
> singular-form.
> 
> On the other hand, it sounds weird (to me at least). Perhaps we should
> just reword the whole sentence. Suggestions?

The grammatically correct version you suggest (the family returns)
sounds fine to my ear, but if you'd rather reword you could write the
sentence as

Functions of the
.Fn sin
family return the sine value.

-- IDL