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Re: [groff] man-page fixes
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Larry Kollar |
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Re: [groff] man-page fixes |
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Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:29:09 -0500 |
> Damian McGuckin <address@hidden> wrote:
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> In what seems like a gazillion years ago, both DEC and IBM wrote manuals
> using a subset of English to make their manuals easy to read for those for
> whom English was not a native language. I would love to be able to find the
> rules which governed the writing of such manuals.
You might be thinking of Simplified Technical English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
https://www.techscribe.co.uk/techw/asd-simplified-technical-english.htm
Larry