Elements of Style and the documentation-guide

DaveP dpawson at nildram.co.uk
Wed Jun 23 20:08:28 UTC 2004


At 18:31 23/06/2004, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>After spending the last several days doing markup on a syntactically and
>grammatically, er, "challenged" tutorial, I found myself in need of the
>solace of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style," if only to remind
>myself that good writing does indeed exist outside my imagination. I
>noticed during my Web search that EoS was released some years ago into
>the public domain, and can be found in a variety of formats, although
>DocBook XML was not one of these as far as I can tell.
>
>I realize that "public domain" != "FDL," and therefore am wondering if
>anyone out there has sufficient expertise to address the extent to which
>EoS might be included in the documentation-guide.


Great idea. How about asking in the commons arena,
or the fdl licence group to find out just how
to interpret that licence?

Unsure where to go, but creative commons sounds about right?
If it is OK, I'llhelp with the markup if needed.

regards DaveP








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