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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:34:28 +0200
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gabor@kovesdan.org, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org, pgj@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A patch for the 'geom' chapter
Message-ID:  <492B01C4.6090707@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87abbp3q5o.fsf@kobe.laptop>
References:  <492AE607.4020208@gmail.com>	<20081124135107.06a8af26.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <87abbp3q5o.fsf@kobe.laptop>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:51:07 -0500, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:36:07 +0200
>> Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/geom.txt
>>>       
>
>   
>> This looks pretty good actually.  I would probably change the
>> following:
>>
>> +      <example>
>> +	<title>Labeling Your Boot Disk's Partitions</title>
>>
>> to:
>>
>> <title>Labeling Partitions on the Boot Disk</title>
>>
>> And there are a lot of "You" references.  I've tried to write this
>> without invoking the user as much as possible and may make reading the
>> entire chapter difficult.  I would prefer we not talk to the user
>> though.
>>     
>
> I am not sure if I will have the time to read the full patch tonight,
> but Tom is quite right about avoiding "you" when possible.
>
>   
Thanks. I will try to rephrase most parts into passive voice where
possible.  I guess I am somewhat influenced by the Greek translations,
where  sometimes passive voice sounds unnatural ;)

Cheers,
manolis




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