Re: gEDA-user: Verbosity in gEDA/pcb documentation

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Ben Jackson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:22:31PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
>>
>> But is it really a good idea to use much redundancy and verbosity?
>
> Redundancy is a good idea.  It can be tedious when you read a document
> straight through, but it's useful when you're using the document as a
> reference.

Depends a bit on the situation. If you're searching in the document  
for how to do X, and it's not clear what words the document writers  
might have used to describe X, redundancy raises the fog level.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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