Writing the Ubuntu Manual
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The document discusses guidelines for writing manuals for Ubuntu users, including defining the audience, voice, and conventions to follow. The target audience is new users, who should be addressed simply without jargon. The voice should be confident but not presumptuous. Standard GUI terms like button, checkbox, and menu are defined for consistent usage.
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Control Flow in Studio
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- 1. Writing Style What to do and what not to do When writing for the Manual presented by Ilya Haykinson [email_address]
- 2. Agenda Writing a manual Our audience Our voice Conventions
- 10. Technical level is too high
- 12. May be new computer users
- 13. Assume basic keyboard and mouse skills, concept of a modern GUI with overlapping windows
- 15. ethernet vs. wifi
- 16. IMAP vs. POP
- 17. sudo vs. root
- 19. Define or explain everything more difficult than clicking the mouse button
- 23. Scan a document
- 28. Do not patronize
- 31. Always use a simpler synonym
- 33. All English-language documentation for Ubuntu uses American spelling
- 37. Better: 'Ubuntu should open a window'
- 41. “Ubuntu is excellent at...”
- 44. Don't mention other options unless they are actually better , not just because they exist
- 49. Bad: “A window will be opened by Empathy”
- 52. Choose , or select / deselect
- 53. A check box is either selected or unselected
- 54. Can also write “option” instead of “check box”
- 58. Not “combo box”
- 61. drag something to some place
- 63. Choose from a menubar
- 65. Choose or select