Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
- Subject: Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:11:14 -0800
> On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:31 AM, Nigel Garvey <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> ... Maybe the Grammar Police could be persuaded to
> investigate a few things in Apple's scripting dictionaries. ;)
Please do file bug reports about any issues with terminology or documentation found in a dictionary:
https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/
(One report per application/dictionary, please.)
> System Events:
> application
> contains audio datas, ….
> contains movie datas, ….
> contains QuickTime datas, ….
> contains XML datas, ….
Alas, this sort of plural (“data”) isn't easily supported. The element class “text” is handled as a special case.
> disk
> Can the media be ejected (floppies, CD's, …?
> Is the media a local volume …?
What do you think they should say?
> StandardAdditions:
> round
> To always round .5 away from zero, ….
>
> Finder:
> window
> Is the window visible (always true for open Finder windows)?
> Is the window collapsed
What's wrong with these three?
--
Chris Page
The other, other AppleScript Chris
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