Re: [office] 2 editorial remarks

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems<Oliver-Rainer.Wittmann@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC members,

Bob Jolliffe wrote:
> Dear TC Members
> 
> 2008/12/15 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems 
> <Oliver-Rainer.Wittmann@sun.com <mailto:Oliver-Rainer.Wittmann@sun.com>>
> 
>     Dear TC members,
> 
>     Ming Fei Jia wrote:
>      > Dear TC members,
>      >
>      > When I browser the specification OpenDocument-v1.2-draft11.odt, I
>     got 2
>      > editorial remarks as bolow, not sure whether someone already
>     reports them:
>      >
>      > 16.1 General
>      > "Styles contain additional information that is not are not formatting
>      > properties".
>      > Here "is not are not" is valid syntax?
> 
>     I do not think so.
>     The words "are not" should be deleted from the text.
> 
> 
> I think this sentence may be more broken than it looks.  One would say 
> "additional information that is not .." but one would also say ".. are 
> not formatting properties"
> 
> We could escape with: .
> "Styles contain additional properties that are not formatting properties".
> OR
> "Styles contain additional information that is not related to formatting 
> properties".
> 
> Hope I'm reading this correctly.
> 

My favourite is the first one.

Thank you Bob for helping me as I am not a native english speaker.


Best regards, Oliver.

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