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Subject: Correction: was Re: [office-comment] Comments on Errata 01 (CommitteeDraft 03)
Murata-san, A correction to a comment in my post on 15.3.4: <snip> > 4) Correction to 15.31.4 > > The editing instruction does not touch the first, second, and third > sentences but merely replaces the rest of the paragraph. However, the > second and third sentences look unnecessary. Even the first one can > be removed. > > I replied in part: > However, correction of that oversight matters more than stylistic > niceties that would be observed in a complete re-drafting. I do > appreciate such insights but as you well know, such polishing is like > pulling a thread that leads to another thread and then to another. > However satisfying that may be, our public corrections to text to be > in response to the corrections requested, not as licenses to correct > all offenses against good style that may or may not appear in a text. The final sentence should read: However satisfying that may be, our public *expects* corrections to text*s* to be in response to the corrections requested, not as licenses to correct all offenses against good style that may or may not appear in a text. Hope you are having a great weekend! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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