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Re: Extra characters
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:40:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger wrote:
> I suspect my documentation isn't clear enough on the use of the forced line
> break character.
Among other things.
I think it's better than some of your other docs (and better than the average
help text these days, that's for sure) but it still is a bit impenetrable in
some spots. I found myself struggling to get control of layout in the series of
BrickFest callfor posts I just did.
I do like that, at least in part, the focus is on how to do things rather than
on the elements and what they do.
Perhaps you need to lift a page from Strunk (1) and compose a "Elements of FTX
Style" to address the various faux pas that you've seen?
1 - or from Kernigan and Plauger, with their "Elements of Programming Style",
done as a clear homage to Strunk (2).
2 - available online at http://www.bartleby.com/141/
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| (...) This is not actually a shortcoming of FTX but a stylistic error. The forced line break character is not the only way to cause a <BR>. 99% of the time, in fact, the forced line break character is never needed. Of the 26 forced line break (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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