Re: readability changes to postgres.sgml

"Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
Organization Command Prompt, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/16/19 10:41 AM, Liudmila Mantrova wrote:
>
>
>     For what it's worth, I think the proposed changes are all solid
>     improvements. The text reads better with them, and that's what
>     this is
>     about -- not whether the removed little text-pieces were 'true' or
>     not.
>
> If we want to make these intros more concise, one of the easiest ways 
> to achieve this is to address the reader directly ("Readers looking 
> for xxx are encouraged to look" vs. smth like "For xxx, see").

This is true and my counter argument is that a call to action is more 
likely to get the reader to do something.

JD


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