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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2001 04:43:31 -0500
From:      "Peter Avalos" <pavalos@theshell.com>
To:        "'Murray Stokely'" <murray@osd.bsdi.com>, <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: emoticons in the Handbook
Message-ID:  <054301c111c9$9c142870$d09cfc9e@tequila>
In-Reply-To: <20010721022552.A61117@meow.osd.bsdi.com>

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Emoticons do not belong in any kind of formal document except when
explaining what an emoticon is. I'd prefer to get rid of all emoticons
in all versions of the handbook.

--Pete

>   Does anyone mind if Chern and I add emoticons to our list 
> of cleanup items?  It appears that at least one reviewer was 
> put off by our liberal use of them :
> 
http://www.daemonnews.org/200103/review_FBSD_Handbook.html

  Do people prefer to see ";)" in HTML output?  We could of course add
an entity that only displays emoticons for HTML output if that would be
desired.

  Thoughts?


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