Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:06:17 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Chern Lee <chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines Message-ID: <20010613170617.B45984@meow.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <0106140037160N.37769@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:37:16AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106131439170.43965-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <0106140037160N.37769@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > 1. How many of the buyers / reviewers of the Handbook said that they > didn't like the tone. > > vs. > > 2. How many of the buyers / reviewers said that they really, *really* > wanted to see a decent index? I don't see them as a trade off, but as two seperate issues that both need to be addressed before a second edition can be published. > expected to be, and we could be focussing our limited energies on efforts > that will be more useful to the readers (like, for example, an index). Speaking of an index Nik, do you mind committing one of our patches to doc.docbook.mk? I believe that yours is more elegant and correct but they both work, and I'd like to see something in the tree that allows us to move forward on the indexing front. Are you in favor of adding index entries into the Handbook in the style that I added them to developers-handbook/secure? - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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