Skip to main content
Emacs

Return to Answer

replaced http://tex.stackexchange.com/ with https://tex.stackexchange.com/
Source Link
Community Bot
Community Bot
  • 1

Go with the gerund. The intuition for tag names is that they complete the sentence “this question is about ____”. Infinitives are a poor fit.

Looking at existing sites, a tag called align exists only on TeXTeX, where it's a proper noun and not the verb; aligning exists nowhere; alignment exists on 10 sites. A tag called load exists on many sites, but it's about the system load (so a noun), not about the verb (at least officially: it does get a lot of misuse, where “load” is used to mean “I happen to be loading something” instead of “this question is about loading something”).

Go with the gerund. The intuition for tag names is that they complete the sentence “this question is about ____”. Infinitives are a poor fit.

Looking at existing sites, a tag called align exists only on TeX, where it's a proper noun and not the verb; aligning exists nowhere; alignment exists on 10 sites. A tag called load exists on many sites, but it's about the system load (so a noun), not about the verb (at least officially: it does get a lot of misuse, where “load” is used to mean “I happen to be loading something” instead of “this question is about loading something”).

Go with the gerund. The intuition for tag names is that they complete the sentence “this question is about ____”. Infinitives are a poor fit.

Looking at existing sites, a tag called align exists only on TeX, where it's a proper noun and not the verb; aligning exists nowhere; alignment exists on 10 sites. A tag called load exists on many sites, but it's about the system load (so a noun), not about the verb (at least officially: it does get a lot of misuse, where “load” is used to mean “I happen to be loading something” instead of “this question is about loading something”).

Source Link
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
  • 22.9k
  • 1
  • 17
  • 41

Go with the gerund. The intuition for tag names is that they complete the sentence “this question is about ____”. Infinitives are a poor fit.

Looking at existing sites, a tag called align exists only on TeX, where it's a proper noun and not the verb; aligning exists nowhere; alignment exists on 10 sites. A tag called load exists on many sites, but it's about the system load (so a noun), not about the verb (at least officially: it does get a lot of misuse, where “load” is used to mean “I happen to be loading something” instead of “this question is about loading something”).