Schr?dinger?s Cat

[Fred Smith]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 04:39:32PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Is there any way to tell grub2 to display this somewhat nicer in the
> > menu, like in /etc/fedora-release: Schrödinger’s Cat.
> 
> Like "Schroedingers Cat"? ;)
> 
> There's something about fonts in grub.cfg:
> 
> 
> ,----
> | [...]
> | if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
> |    font=unicode
> | else
> | insmod part_msdos
> | insmod ext2
> | set root='hd2,msdos2'
> | if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
> |   search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='hd2,msdos2'  5d251fe7-3b96-4aaa-9031-26400fd3bbc0
> | else
> |   search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5d251fe7-3b96-4aaa-9031-26400fd3bbc0
> | fi
> |     font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
> | fi
> | 
> | if loadfont $font ; then
> |   set gfxmode=auto
> |   load_video
> |   insmod gfxterm
> |   set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
> |   set lang=en_US
> |   insmod gettext
> | fi
> | terminal_output gfxterm
> | [...]
> `----
> 
> 
> BTW, why is it "Schrödinger's" and not "Schrödingers"?  Schrödinger
> wasn't a cat.

because "'s" is the possessive form (at least in English), meaning
we're referring to something that belonged to "Schrödinger", while
the second form you show (i.e., sans apostrophe) means multiple
people/entities/things called Schrödinger.

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