prompts in command examples

[Murray McAllister]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:17 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Red Hat documentation team recently had a discussion about using
>> prompts (such as "$" and "#") in command examples.
>>
>> Joshua "top-posting ftw" Wulf came up with the following, and everyone
>> agreed (I think...):
>
> IIRC, one person vehemently detracted.  My biggest concern here is
> getting a consistency across these documentation teams so we can work on
> common upstream content together.  That is much more important than my
> personal preference.
>
> Maybe we want to start a discussion of hashing out the difference in our
> style guides and making one common Fedora-based writing guide we can all
> reference, adding project- or commercial-specific content when working
> downstream.

Red Hat Content Services agreed on a usage. The current thing I am
working on is in Fedora, so if you could all let me know (preferably
before November) what you decide, I'll change it accordingly.

Cheers.