Re: Style Guide for UNIX?

[Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>]

Janet Swisher wrote:
> FWIW,
> 
> The GNOME Documentation Style Guide says "Do not use commands as
> verbs" and "Avoid starting a sentence with a command name or
> application name that has a lowercase initial letter".
> 
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en
> 
> (GNOME is a desktop environment for Unix.)
> 

FYI, the GNOME style guide is largely based on the
Sun style guide, as the writers who created it were
Sun contractors at the time :-> The quotes above can
also be found in _Read Me First_.

While it's true that we worked hard to make RMF
OS agnostic, all of the principles in RMF work in
UNIX environments because, as someone noted, Sun
is primarily a UNIX house.

-- Janice

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