Re: Compliments and proofreading

From: Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:37:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Compliments and proofreading
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> I just would like to say here how much I loved the new chm help file. PHP > help's content has always been excellent. Now, with a local copy of the > users' comments, it is just too precious. It is probably unprecedent and > certainly bound to set new standards anytime soon across other languages > and applications documentation. It also adjusts perfectly to my screen > width, the colors are highly welcome. I was afraid the experimental chm > file would be bloated with a lot of graphics, but it just turned out to > have a very elegant and sleek look. Congratulations to whomever is > responsible for that. Holger Eggert designed the current interface. There will be more interfaces available in the future, and anyone will be able to choose from them, however the current one will stay the default. > Just to make this posting a little more "useful", here is a suggestion. It > is hard to ignore that the documentation has many typos and gross writing > mistakes. Especially the users' notes. It is not only ugly, it also > prevents words from being detected by the search engine. Has anybody ever > thought of combing it all and applying some proofreading? There could be a > group handling a side project in charge of that. I'll forward this to the phpdoc mailing list. Goba

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