docs: remove exclamation points#580
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Per the marketing content guidelines, exclamation points should not be used in documentation. Rewrites 15 instances across 9 files, mostly by changing "!" to "." at sentence boundaries. Left one occurrence untouched: the "[!]" in how-to-install-flutter.mdx documents a literal symbol from `flutter doctor` output, not punctuation, so removing it would change its meaning.
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Per the marketing content guidelines (see #576), exclamation points should not be used in documentation. This rewrites 15 instances across 9 files, mostly by changing a sentence-ending "!" to "." — a couple of quoted/stylistic exclamations ("Aha!", "Here I am in the tree!") were reworded minimally to read naturally without the exclamation point.
Left untouched (1 occurrence): the
**[!]**inhow-to-install-flutter.mdxdocuments a literal symbol that appears in realflutter doctoroutput (alongside[✓]and[✗]), not punctuation — removing it would misrepresent the tool's actual output.This is one of several small content PRs split out of #576 so the
Shorebird.ExclamationVale check can eventually be made blocking without a giant, hard-to-review PR.Test plan
npm run buildsucceeds, no broken linkscspellpasses on all touched files[!]symbol-table entry remains flagged