You have Wikipedia on your side, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowTo>.
The HOWTO as a companion of FAQ and README is noted. I also think there is affinity with the MAN-page Unixism, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page>, although it is apparently uncommon to use "man" full-capitalized. North America goes off daylight savings time in about 13 hours. Hoo Haa. Now if I just go to be early anyhow! - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Jean Weber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] "how-to" or "howto" On Sunday, November 6, 2011, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > I just wanted to ask if there is an agreed view on whether to use the term "how-to" or "howto" or "HOWTO" (all uppercase) on our LibreOffice pages? > > I believe that the convention is "HOWTO" much in the same way that we use "FAQ" in uppercase. Is this how it is being used in documentation? > > I just wanted to ask for the sake on consistency on our web pages too. > > Cheers, > > Marc I prefer "how-to" as a generic term. It's not like FAQ, which is an acronym or initialism. I haven't researched this in style guides,, however, so I'm not (yet) dead set on it. I don't recall if the term is in our own style guide (which isn't fully up to date); I'll check that later. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
