Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:58:07 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Eric Ogren <eogren@stanford.edu>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Chern Lee <chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines Message-ID: <20010613165807.A45984@meow.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200106132316.f5DNG2365398@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:16:02PM -0700 References: <XFMail.010613160240.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200106132316.f5DNG2365398@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:16:02PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Appropriate, yes, but not required, IMHO. I seem to remember from my > technical writing class in college that this could be (is?) something > of a religious issue. (Well, that's not what the instructor called it, Read through the handbook and then read through any other printed technical publication. There is a huge difference and it becomes apparent very quickly that the Handbook is nowhere near being ready for shelf-exposure. We're not talking about minor grammatical nits here (as your professor was), we're talking about very major ones. We even have people who are willing to do the work of going through each chapter and cleaning up the structure. We just need to come up with some ground rules and guidelines about this sort of thing. I am really shocked that there is any resistance to this since I've heard so many grumbles about the very problem we're trying to fix. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the messagehelp
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