'How To'

[Phillip Whiteside]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Phillip Whiteside <PhillW at uk.vpolink.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Phill,
>>
>>
>>
>> << I'm much more interested in encouraging people to write about things,
>> << and write about them well. If you write some clear, well-researched,
>> << easy to understand help topic, in plain text if you like, then I'll
>> << happily do all of the boring markup stuff for you. You see, the
>> << technical stuff doesn't matter to our readers; the content does.
>>
>> He he, I have some one helping me with getting the grammatical structure
> correct; it's great being back at 'school' after years of 'sloppy' writing
> ;-)
>
>
>> << (As it happens, I'm looking for a few people to help with the re-write
>> << of the GNOME Desktop Help. There's quite a lot of work to be done in
>> << that area, if anyone is interested...)
>>
>> << doing some stuff for the new baby, lubuntu using the lxde desktop,
> hopefully I may have it ready for 10.10 ;-)
>
> But, while on the subject of 'clear text'; would something like this be of
> the required standard (It's nothing special, just me getting some practice
> in; I know I am to write in third person, but am trying to get some way
> towards the basic format in my mind.
> http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=54&p=73#p73  ;
> http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=52 and
> http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=35
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
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