> > > Just to make this posting a little more "useful", here is a
suggestion. It
> > > is hard to ignore that the documentation has many typos and gross
writing
> > > mistakes. Especially the users' notes. It is not only ugly, it also
> > > prevents words from being detected by the search engine. Has anybody
ever
> > > thought of combing it all and applying some proofreading? There could
be a
> > > group handling a side project in charge of that.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Luciano Espirito Santo
> > > Santos - SP - Brasil
> >
> > Well, we do it from time to time, but not as a QA effort.
> > Maybe it would be nice to have two or three people with
> > "high quality" English knowledge to reread our English
> > texts... I know I am sometimes quite bad in grammar...
>
> We have no control in any real sense over the user notes. It's hard
> enough just deleting the useless ones, without having to edit the
> others. They are just that: 'user notes'--not anything we've done--and
> their content is the authors' own.

I am not talking about the user notes, but the manual content.
Proofreading at least the grammar and text used in the manual
is kind of a Quality Assurrance.

Goba


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