> Damian McGuckin wrote:
>
> In what seems like a gazillion years ago, both DEC and IBM wrote manuals
> using a subset of English to make their manuals easy to read for those for
> whom English was not a native language. I would love to be able to find the
> rules which governed the writing
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Larry Kollar wrote:
Nowadays, minimalism is all the rage. Omit needless words, as
Professor Strunk wrote in 1918.
A (shortened?? 26-page) version of which is at
https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/StrunkWhite.pdf
The 4th and latest editio
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Doug McIlroy wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:40:14PM -0500:
>
>> Regardless of standards considerations, if there's any advice
>> that needs to be hammered into man authors, it's to be concise
>> and accurate, but not pedantic. As Will Strunk commanded,
>> "Omit needle
Hi Doug,
Doug McIlroy wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:40:14PM -0500:
> Regardless of standards considerations, if there's any advice
> that needs to be hammered into man authors, it's to be concise
> and accurate, but not pedantic. As Will Strunk commanded,
> "Omit needless words."
That is rema
>
> *The most needless words of all are promotional. No man page should utter
> words like "powerful", "extraordinarily versatile", "user-friendly", or
> "has a wide range of options".*
I couldn't agree more, Doug. *curl(1)* reminds me of this every time I run
`man curl` for a reminder on what sw
Hi Axel,
> >>> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz
>
> > Is is possible to have a copy of this document on gnu.org ?
> > sometimes documents vanish suddenly (i learned that leasson last
> > week).
>
> I was actually surprised that the files were still there:-)
>
> I didn't find any lic
Am 24.09.2007 um 12:47 schrieb Walter Harms:
groff.man (7) linkt to http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/54.ps but the
actual file is at
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz
Is is possible to have a copy of this document on gnu.org ?
sometimes documents vanish suddenly (i learned that leasso
>
> Am 21.09.2007 um 20:32 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm currently adding a section about further literature to my short
>> guide.
>> While reading the man-pages I stumbled over a few things:
>>
>> groff_char.man the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) code.
>>
>> groff.man (7) linkt to http://cm.bel
> Here are the patches:
Applied with modifications, thanks.
Werner
Am 21.09.2007 um 20:32 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
Hi!
I'm currently adding a section about further literature to my short
guide.
While reading the man-pages I stumbled over a few things:
groff_char.man the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) code.
groff.man (7) linkt to http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/54.ps bu
> Do you want patches?
Yes, please.
> If yes, which format?
diff -u
Werner
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 08:32:54PM +0200, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
> :
> groff.man (7) linkt to http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/54.ps but the
> actual file is at
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz (Which is actually a ps
> file, unless my browser ungziped it on the fly.)
It is a gzip
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