From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 40011@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#40011: Remove unnecessary abbreviations from documentation
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:46:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jTGGu-0006G8-TS@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wo613sdu.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:39:09 +0300)
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> "Try to avoid using abbreviations like ... as much as possible."
> Maybe even add a footnote saying something like "We do occasionally
> use these, but try not to overdo it.".
We could even say, "We intend to replace these abbreviations,
but we are not in a desperate hurry."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-28 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-10 13:54 bug#40011: Remove unnecessary abbreviations from documentation Stefan Kangas
2020-03-10 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-27 6:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-27 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-27 17:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-27 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 16:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-28 2:46 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-04-27 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-27 16:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-27 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-28 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
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