Hi Craig, On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 17:25 +0930, Craig Keogh wrote: > I do not like personal pronouns (you, your, he, she) in documentation. > The GNOME style guidelines [1] doesn't say much about personal pronouns, > but 'Topic 2 Passive Voice' [1] suggests it. Active voice is good. Using > 'you' is not.
I'm interested: why don't you like personal pronouns in documentation? As far as I'm aware, we've restricted use to "you"/"your", which are reasonably safe. Thanks, Phil -- Phil Bull https://launchpad.net/~philbull Book - http://nostarch.com/ubuntu4.htm _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
