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Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
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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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