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List:       kde-doc-english
Subject:    Re: [kde-doc-english]Attn all: Markup Changes
From:       Frederik Fouvry <fouvry () CoLi ! Uni-SB ! DE>
Date:       2002-01-28 8:57:54
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| I hate saying that too, but similarly, I think it would be better to remove 
| many smileys (*) and jokes from the doc, even if they won't offend anyone.
| 
| It would give a much more professional touch to the documentation.
| 
| Many translation teams already told me they were removing them 
| systematically. Yes, Linux and KDE are fun, but they also need an image of 
| being ready for the enterprise.
| 
| Comments, opinions?
| 
| (*) For those who recently landed from planet Mars, the smileys are those 
| funny sequences of punctuation:
| 	;-)
| 	:-)
| 	:-/
| etc...

Inasmuch as I have a say, I'd like to see them go too.  It just
looks so much better without them.  Smileys have been introduced
to make texts shorter.  No need to do that in documentation; take
your time to express what you want to say, and the reader will
be grateful.

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Frederik Fouvry		-	fouvry@coli.uni-sb.de
KDE DocBook Team	-	kde-docbook@master.kde.org
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