Hello, Leon. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Leon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I just got done reading the manual. It makes a great intro for true > beginners, even people without prior computing experience. It's less > helpful to a guy like me, who's coming to Linux from Windows--but then, I'm > not really the target audience, so the manual can hardly be faulted for > that. > > I noticed a couple small things that might be worth making quick changes > to. > > On page 31, it uses i.e. incorrectly: "plac a dot (.) in frontof the name ( > i.e., ".Personal Finances")." The sentence seems to be using it as an > abbreviation for "for example", but what it's really looking for is e.g. > i.e. is short for "that is" and wouldn't make sense there. You're right. This bug survived a long time. One of our translated reported it a couple weeks ago and it's been fixed in the current manual (which hasn't been released yet). On page 143, the word "first" got used twice right up against each other, > pretty awkwardly: "But first, we'll first discuss the technologies...." > This looks to be an artifact from an edit somewhere along the way, no big > deal, but I thought you might want to know. > Good catch! I've committed this fix and it will appear in the 10.10 manual when it's released. Thanks for your bug reports -- we really appreciate them! --Kevin Godby
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