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Documentation (UG): Reflector Questions in Section 4 #9

Closed ikleyjl closed 10 years ago

ikleyjl commented 11 years ago

Reviewer Wolfe says: "In the “Reflector Options” table, what is “Dünn”? Also, for consistency, it seems like the word “reflector” in each of the blue cells should be capitalized."

As far as I know, the only answer to her first question is, "The end of the name of the reflector variant." >_>

As far as the caps question, I think that it's pretty much the norm to use capital R when talking about a specific rotor ("Rotor I", "Rotor III", etc) and lowercase r when talking about the reflectors, but I could just be mis-remembering it? Won't correct until I hear from someone else.

wadolph commented 11 years ago

I think Dunn is German for 'Thin'. As for capitalizing the rotors, I would think that when speaking about a specific rotor, we use capital R, as that is what they are called (i.e. Rotor III, Rotor V, etc.) and lowercase when discussing rotors in general.

bmwinstead commented 11 years ago

Yes, dunn (too lazy for umlauts) is German for thin. I agree re: Rotor vs rotor, when referring to a specific rotor or reflector capital R, general rotors lowercase. To avoid this confusion we could change to using the German words (Walzen and Umkehrwalz), but I think that would maybe just add more confusion.

EOhlmacher commented 10 years ago

Updated the master doc and User's Guide so rotor and reflector are only in caps if they are describing a proper noun (such as a specific number or class), beginning a sentence, or part of a title. Updated every case of "Dunn" to be "Dünn" and followed them with (Thin) for clarification.