[HacktionLab] Some style questions about Tech Tools

[m3shrom@riseup.net]

Hi there
It looks like most people dont have strong opinions on these issues. 

Personally I'm in 2 minds about it. if the url is easy to remember then maybe include it inline and if not then as a foot note with full url?

M3sh on the move
 


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From: "Beth McMillan" <teradaisyspawn at gmail.com>
To: <hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org>
Subject: [HacktionLab] Some style questions about Tech Tools
Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 2:49 pm
Hi chums,

I've been doing a quick sweep through the FlossManuals version of Tech Tools, looking for spelling errors, grammatical and formatting inconsistencies. I've got a few questions for discussion.


1. What are we doing with URLs? 
Are we doing footnotes or in-text links? And are we shortening all links to tiny.booki.cc? If we are shortening links, are we using descriptive names (like http://tiny.booki.cc/?videoplatforms) or are we leaving them as short strings of characters (like http://tiny.booki.cc/?0ER8)?

2. Are we using "double quotes" or 'single quotes'?

3. When discussing Linux in general is it "GNU/Linux" or just "Linux"? (I prefer GNU/Linux)

4. Similarly, are we saying "Free Software", "Libre Software", "Open Source" or, as in one chapter, "Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS)"? (I prefer Libre Software)


My plan is to sweep through every couple of weeks and proof read the whole thing each time, so the newest version will usually be grammatically correct. I hope that's okay with all y'all.

-Beth
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