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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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