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Warren Block
e0d40d0885 Add a third column to the word list for notes about usage. Remove the
  from the "Ports Collection" usage, that was unnecessary.  Add
an entry for Subversion and a note about which form to use.
2013-07-03 00:00:54 +00:00
Warren Block
181fb984e1 Whitespace-only changes. Translators, please ignore. 2013-06-26 04:24:45 +00:00
Warren Block
7f2a4285e5 Point out that examples must be tested. 2013-06-26 04:23:10 +00:00
Warren Block
73e452b5d7 Use <sgmltag> instead of faking it.
Submitted by:	Hiroki Sato
2013-06-24 01:09:01 +00:00
Warren Block
3a6e0abebd Add a tip about examples. 2013-06-23 20:14:59 +00:00
Warren Block
a6e2657fd1 Improve the word list markup with brackets instead of CDATA, and add a
non-breaking space to the Ports Collection example.
2013-06-22 02:27:34 +00:00
Warren Block
da1e22a104 Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2013-06-20 16:46:55 +00:00
Warren Block
0bd302297a Rearrange the Writing Style chapter. Move new tips to a new section,
and organize them into clear, complete, and concise categories.
2013-06-20 16:40:42 +00:00
Warren Block
ed146b7542 Update ancient word list in FDP.
Reviewed by:	dru
2013-06-17 21:17:51 +00:00
Warren Block
9592140393 Add some suggestions on writing style to the FDP.
Reviewed by:	dru,trhodes
2013-06-17 20:16:00 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
e8f02ce7e1 - MFH 2013-05-17 18:05:43 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
a06603e1e8 - MFH 2013-02-05 09:14:34 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
d95165dc16 - Make the English documentation valid XML 2013-01-21 17:37:33 +00:00
Glen Barber
6b4f60d71c Update writing style examples, replacing cvsup with svn. 2013-01-05 01:19:09 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
b4346b9b2d - Rename .sgml files to .xml
- Reflect the rename in referencing files

Approved by:	doceng (implicit)
2012-10-01 09:53:01 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
9c243757ef - XML declarations should use IANA encoding names
Pointed out by:	hrs
2012-09-14 17:47:48 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
2e51ec7022 - Strip unnecessary trailing spaces
Approved by:	doceng (implicit)
2012-08-21 19:16:02 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
74586f38c6 - Remove PSGML comments since they are not very useful after the XML
migration

Approved by:		doceng (implicit)
No objection from:	doc@, www@
2012-08-07 23:31:39 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
3cdf4e4922 - XMLify English books
Approved by:	doceng (implicit)
2012-06-21 16:04:40 +00:00
Warren Block
fe83da9b8f Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-05-21 14:54:44 +00:00
Gabor Pali
cf43250f83 - Fix capitalization
- Eliminate reference to books for generalization ("document")
- Use <sgmltag> where applicable
- Mark up quotes with <quote>
- Fix spelling of "non-breaking"
2009-01-21 23:49:33 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
9e1d1c1566 Except for some rare cases, always use punctuation to finish a
sentence at the end of a paragraph so that the readers don't think
that some text is missing.

Consistently use colons to finish sentences introductory to examples.
2005-09-12 16:47:36 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
2b001b23e3 Add null-modem to the word list since it's the spelling used in our
docs.
2005-07-30 19:44:30 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
f62721db3f Add a note about the possible use of British English in a contributed
article.

Requested by:		simon
Some inspiration from:	murray
2005-02-23 14:25:16 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
6b6e503484 Remove Ports Collection entry, it's useless to say the things twice. 2005-02-23 13:48:19 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
8cafb9e453 When using a proper noun, capitalize it.
PR:		77926
Submitted by:	Jesus R. Camou <jcamou@COX.net>
2005-02-23 07:35:16 +00:00
Simon L. B. Nielsen
ca6b13e867 Change CDROM to CD-ROM in the word list, since the later seems to be
most widely used.  This is not really a change of policy, just
documenting the current de facto policy.

Quoting blackend (but don't blame this commit on him):

	CD-ROM seems to be the more widely used spelling, most of new
	additions use CD-ROM, "legacy" docs use CDROM.  Since CD-ROM
	may be seen as the right solution, let's keep the old spelling
	for the moment and just use CD-ROM in every new additions.

Semi-intresting google statistics: 9,950,000 hits for CDROM,
28,800,000 hits for "CD-ROM".

PR:		docs/77535
Submitted by:	Jesus R. Camou <jcamou@cox.net>
2005-02-20 16:57:00 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
7b7c4e8c0d Revert last change. Adding mispelled or missing words is not too
uncommon and 78 columns will easily grow beyond 80 when such changes
are made.
2004-11-11 14:41:59 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
75fc038d53 Change the recommended line length limit from 70 characters to 78.
This still fits under 80 columns and is not too narrow.

Noticed by:	Tillman Hodgson
2004-11-11 08:25:26 +00:00
Ceri Davies
4dff5475f7 Consistently pluralise entries in the word list (i.e. don't). 2004-09-22 18:04:52 +00:00
Murray Stokely
727e63bc87 Add a section about acronyms to our style guide; based on what we
hashed out on doc@ and from the O'Reilly Style Guide.
2004-07-22 03:35:38 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
ad4c8eed12 Add "disk label" to the word list, this will prevent people to
be confused with the (old) command name disklabel(8) when they
will write some docs.
2003-06-08 16:41:03 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
7aa6b25f4a Add 'IPsec' to the word list
Requested by:	murray
2003-04-17 02:09:32 +00:00
Tom Hukins
825301e946 Clarify the use of tabs in documentation and add a Vim configuration
example.
2003-04-10 21:13:09 +00:00
Ceri Davies
be816809c0 Correct a broken tag within an example: s/pubdata/pubdate/
PR:		docs/48817
Submitted by:	Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>
2003-03-01 18:53:38 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
a157b39ac4 Add 'Soft Updates' to the wordlist
Approved by: ceri (mentor)
2003-01-13 18:20:59 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
1f359cbbab /tmp/msg 2003-01-12 18:20:55 +00:00
Martin Heinen
2bfcee3890 Add a section explaining &nbsp;
Reviewed by:	Lukasz Bojarski <ni@merkury.pol.lublin.pl>
Approved by:	murray, alex (mentor)
2002-10-10 08:40:52 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
89e96b7a6b Sort wordlist. 2002-08-31 20:14:13 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
4a85c1d9ac Add "file system" to the wordlist.
PR:		docs/42256
Submitted by:	Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
2002-08-31 20:11:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
da3df16f33 Unbreak doc/web build. 2002-08-18 00:56:58 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
24a0a68339 More consistency in capitalization of applications name. 2002-08-17 19:59:21 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
96e9fe2ad3 Expand contractions in the fdp-primer.
Also replace a few erroneous "it's" with the possessive "its".
2001-12-08 12:12:47 +00:00
Nik Clayton
19b04dea07 Damn. "rationalize" -> "rationalise". 2001-11-30 09:50:48 +00:00
Nik Clayton
bb399b1df9 Note that American English is the preferred variant for spelling. 2001-11-29 23:20:56 +00:00
Chern Lee
efda86a986 Spelling Fixes:
* overridable -> overridden
 * documention -> documentation
 * preceeding -> preceding
 * preceeded -> preceded
 * harddisk -> hard disk
 * analagous -> analogous
 * togther -> together
 * timelines -> time lines
 * philisophy-> philosophy
 * differentation -> differentiation
 * knowledgable -> knowledgeable
 * occurence -> occurrence
 * occured -> occurred
 * greek -> Greek
 * aready -> already
 * commandline -> command line
 * latin -> Latin
 * seperate -> separate
2001-10-31 23:47:32 +00:00
Murray Stokely
bc83273cff * Correct some links
* Use ftp.hostname.com/directory rather than
  ftp.hostname.com:directory.
* s/freebsd.org/FreeBSD.org/
* Use relative links for FreeBSD.org documents

PR:		31447
Submitted by:	Cyrille Lefevre
Found by:	linbot
2001-10-23 21:54:19 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
4593fd98a7 Sweep through english docs and replace &ldquot; and friends with <quote>.
Approved by:	nik
2001-10-10 11:47:30 +00:00
Jim Mock
91144d52bc Add "name server", "web server", and "mail server" to the word list. 2001-08-11 21:45:32 +00:00
Jim Mock
69fe2fd10d Add "manual page(s)" to the word list. 2001-08-11 21:42:06 +00:00