From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-Xtra Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:03:31 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4nejzv9b98.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17469.53282.265431.557135@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <4nd5flnwtg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nek002s4h.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145372640 29519 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2006 15:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 18 17:03:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVrk4-0005FP-Ml for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVrk4-0000DU-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:03:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVrjr-0000Cu-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVrjq-0000Cg-Eh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVrjq-0000CZ-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FVrkj-0005cT-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FVrjP-000544-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu ([134.174.54.119]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by asimov.bwh.harvard.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: asimov.bwh.harvard.edu X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r0c4gmTMVWsZyseuWts2sEFhJ7w= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53012 Archived-At: On 15 Apr 2006, rms@gnu.org wrote: > I doubt that we would save more than a few pages this way in the > manual overall. But it might be an improvement anyway. So would you > like to look at a source file and propose such changes? I can do that. Do you want it done before the current release or after? Is there a style guide for the manual? For instance, I prefer active to passive voice when writing English because it makes for clear, short sentences that don't sound tentative. Ted