Linux Basics Headings

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 20 08:31:59 UTC 2006


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* Matthew Paul Thomas:
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
>> I propose that "Switch" be changed to "Switching" and "Disable" changed
>> to "Disabling".  My logic is that these are things that will be done
>> repeatedly and should be phrased that way.  As this will effect quite a
>> few pages I thought it was worthy of discussion.
>> ...
> 
> Good idea -- not necessarily because something will be done repeatedly, 
> but because the imperative tense looks unnecessarily like an order, and 
> because "Xing the Y" is more concise than "How to X the Y".

I agree too. Brian - we'll certainly apply any patches you send in in
relation to this change.

Matt
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