Re: [office] Question of writing style?

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

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