Document package.rule = NO

[mschrumpf]

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I have searched the Vale documentation for instructions how to ignore individual rules from a package / style and I have not been able to anything.
A fellow technical writer told me that you can do this by adding package.rule = NO in .vale.ini.
I added the following to my .vale.ini:

Microsoft.DateFormat = NO
Microsoft.Contractions = NO
Microsoft.Quotes = NO

And sure enough, those three rules are being ignored now. That's great. But why isn't this documented anywhere? Or if it is, why am I having such a hard time finding it?

I am just getting started with using Vale. To me, the most sensible workflow of using Vale seems to be the following:

• use the official packages
• drop/ignore the rules you don't need
• substitute them with your own

I have encountered great difficulties with arriving at this workflow due to the issue described above.
I would be very happy if this function or any alternative methods for the workflow could be featured more prominently in the documentation.