[Audacity-manual] Fw: Scientific Filter Cutoff or Cut-off

[Peter S. <pet...@ya...>]

And I thought I had remembered we opened discussion
on this earlier - and I don't believe we ever settled the
matter back then ...

Peter.

Peter Sampson
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Subject: Scientific Filter Cutoff or Cut-off
  


In reviewing the documentation for Scientific Filter:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Scientific_Filter#Cutoff
Steve has pointed our that there is an issue over one of the
parameters.
 
In the effect's dialog there is a parameter called "Cutoff", however
the Consistency page in the Manual is insistent that we should
write this with hyphenation as "Cut-off"
 
So either we need to change the spelling in the dialog, or change 
our consistency rule.
 I suspect we could do with some insight from our American-English
native speaking colleagues before making a decision

 
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Background detail:
 
What Connie says:Software/hardware terminology: opinions vary but we choose the most common pro usage or the most common in US English if there is no consensus: 
"cut-off" (noun), not "cutoff"  or "cut off" 
"resampling", not "re-sampling" 
"rolloff" (noun), not "roll-off" "or roll off" 
"sound card", not "soundcard" 
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I note that the OED has cut-off and roll-off but realize that may not
be a good guide to US English.

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When I Googled "cutoff" the first thing I got was:
cut-off
noun
noun: cutoff
	1. 1. 
a point or level which is a designated limit of something.
"2,500 g is the standard cut-off below which infants are categorized as ‘low birthweight’"
	2. 2. 
an act of stopping or interrupting the supply of something.
"a cut-off of aid would be a disaster"
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Wikipedia is somewhat confusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutoff using "cutoff" for physics but "cut-off" for electronics.  Perhaps most relevant they have "Cutoff frequency" for digital signal processing which is really closer to what we do and the usage in Scientific Filter is relating to frequency.

Cheers,
Peter



Peter Sampson
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