Re: [rfa/doc] Update ui-out; Was: [patch] Add col_name to ui_out_table_header()

Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-06T01:31:00Z

> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 22:19:26 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> > English is not my first language (not even the second, actually), but
> > I know RMS always corrects my passive-tense sentences.
>
> So FSF documents should be written as second person present tense
> (correct name?).

I don't know if that's something in the GNU standards. I understand
that it's simply considered to be a good English style: it's better to
say "you do this and that" instead of "this and that is done".