Re: the character ‘%’

[ali hagigat]

A document should not be like a complicated puzzle! One main problem
of make document is that it does not explain  subjects in order. When
you read any paragraph it references some pages after or before.

When you refer to those pages, they start referring to other pages and
it continues. It destroys concentration.

It suddenly uses some complex commands without prior enough
explanations and to get rid of explanation it starts references to
other pages. When you study other pages you can not figure out what
was that command at last!!

I much appreciate the writers of such magnificent tool without charge
and their effort for documentation but it can be written more clearly.
There is a simple rule for it:

Each explanation has some components. An explanation is written IF AND
ONLY IF its components have been written and explained FIRST.

The document starts talking about RCS, SCCS files in 3.7 suddenly
without even mentioning the importance of such files that are used for
revision control leaving the reader amazed what are these RCS and SCCS
files? Are their names are RCS and SCCS or these two symbols specify
the type of file they are indicating at?!!

Sam, maybe you yourself do not know what the word, "them" is
indicating at the phrase!


On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Sam Ravnborg <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:38:04PM +0430, ali hagigat wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> You wrote 3 lines and spent time but did not answer my question!!
>
> I did answer the question you asked. But I may very well have failed
> to answer the question you thought of.
>
> And I cannot see that you have done any effort to analyze it
> yourself...
> Please do so.
>
>        Sam
>