On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 10:18, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> > > > 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

Sorry, I should have made clear that I was responding to the line
in the original message which mentioned that the problem was 
especially evident in the user notes. I certainly agree with your point,
Goba. :)
 
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