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Re: [office] Question of writing style?

  • 1.  Re: [office] Question of writing style?

    Posted 11-10-2004 14:23
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    Subject: Re: [office] Question of writing style?


    Hi Patrick,
    
    Patrick Durusau wrote:
    > 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.
    
    This phrase actually was introduced some time ago by a technical writer
    that did some editing work on the OpenOffice.org specification and that
    is a native English speaker. Because of this, my assumption was that the
    phrase is okay, alltough I never used it myself for exactly the reasons
    you mention.
    
    I think we should discuss in the next con call whether we want to change
    the phrases, and if so, when and how.
    
    Michael
    
    


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