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    Posted 11-06-2004 16:21
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    Subject: Question of writing style?


    Greetings,
    
    At section 2.8 Page Styles and Layout, the phrase 'you can' begins to 
    appear. By way of illustration:
    
    In text and spreadsheet documents, you can assign a master page to 
    paragraph and table styles using a style:master-page-name attribute. 
    Each time the paragraph or table style is applied to text, a page break 
    is inserted before the paragraph or table. The page that starts at the 
    page break position uses the specified master page.
    
    (fourth paragraph on page 52)
    
    I think the preferred style for standards would read (first sentence only):
    
    In text and spreadsheet documents, a master page is assigned to 
    paragraph and table styles using a style:master-page-name attribute.
    
    The phrase appears 400 times in the latest draft. Perhaps I have been 
    too heavily influenced by ISO style drafting but it seems a bit informal 
    for a standard.
    
    Hope everyone is having a great day!
    
    Patrick
    
    -- 
    Patrick Durusau
    Director of Research and Development
    Society of Biblical Literature
    Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
    Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
    Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
    
    Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
    
    
    


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