[drupal-docs] use of term "how to" or "howto" inhandbook howto's

[Charlie Lowe]

One disadvantage of "how-to": Google doesn't search for it. Instead, it 
returns searches for "how to."

As far as other uses of howto or how-to, The Linux Documentation Project 
uses "howto."

Steven Peck wrote:
> I vote for How-to 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howto
> :)
> -sp
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> Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] use of term "how to" or "howto" inhandbook howto's
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> 
> I'd love to see all of these collected in a separate section.
> 
> I'd also vote for "Howto" or "How-to" (as a noun, to be
> preferred over the verbal form "How to").   I see both
> Howto and How-to in diverse contexts from Home Renovation
> to Extreme Makeover (make sure you don't get your how-to's
> mixed up ;) so I think eether/i-ther has become part of standard
> usage.
> 
>       Djun
> 
> 
> On 7 Jun 2005, at 10:42 AM, Morbus Iff wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I think we should either write:
>>>
>>>   HOWTO: creating forum containers
>>
>>To throw my weight in, I would choose the above. The "HOWTO: " makes
>>it a
>>stylistic creation: "Ah! This is a special type of document called a
>>HOWTO; awesome, I recognize those!" as opposed to:
>>
>>
>>>   How to create forum containers
>>
>>which is bland and boring, and I'd revise to
>>be the more 'active' "Creating forum containers".
>>
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