Re: documentation usability

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:12:28AM +0100, Pat Costello wrote:
> 
> Daniel Veillard wrote: 
> 
> >   The readability tests are interesting because they look automatable,
> > it should not be too hard to do automatically on the docbook documents.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> This suggestion is right on target. I didn't want to mention the unpalatable 
> fact in the usability piece, but the only easily-available word-processing 
> software that I can find that incorporates these readability tests is <whisper 
> attribute = apologetic>MS Word</whisper>. If we could enrol an interested hacker 
> to create GNOME-compliant tools, then the availability of readability testing 
> tools for GDP writers would be a big value-add at source. 

  Actually I already sent such a suggestion to the gnome-love project :-)
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/2001-June/msg00117.html

Daniel

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