[sane-devel] "sheet feed" typo in SANE SPEC?

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

I admit that I'm a little late adding a reply to this thread :-)

Sheetfed is a term that's used a lot in the printing industry: The=20
offset world uses
sheetfed and web presses. It's also used (and has been for quite some=20
time) for
scanners.

For terms like this, a general purpose dictionary is not the best place=20=

to lookup
data. You need a dictionary about a certain subject matter (e.g.=20
printing or scanning)
to find this term, but as usual, Google is your friend: Just search for=20=

"sheedfed" with
Google and look at some of the hits it brings up. If you want to go=20
even further,
try "sheetfed dictionary", and you will find a few (? - 824 hits is=20
probably more than
just a few :-) tech dictionaries that talk about "sheetfed".

Karl Heinz


On Dec 13, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> Ren=E9 Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> writes:
>
>> although I already cut'n pasted the proposed type string "sheetfed
>> scanner" into my Avision backend (years ago), I noticed today that
>> "sheetfed" does not seem to be valid english. What my paper form as
>> well as online dictionary know is "sheetfeed" or more precisely =
"sheet
>> feed".
>
> The scanner is fed sheets by the sheet feeder, hence a sheet fed
> scanner.  Compare with handheld scanner.
>
>> The string is not used often in the backends (avision.c, hpsj5s.c and
>> matsushita.c).
>>
>> If we agree I could just commit to change the occurrences.
>
> IMHO, these changes should not be committed although I don't mind if a
> space or hyphen is put between sheet and fed.  FYI, aspell with a UK
> English dictionary suggests these as alternatives (1) and (2), resp.
> # (0) is sheeted, which is just plain wrong in this case.
>
> Just my 2 yen.
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