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Subject: Re: [office] 2 editorial remarks


On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 14:45 +0100, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software
Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Ming Fei Jia wrote:
> > 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.
> 

Such a simple fix is not possible. "information" is singular while
"properties" is plural. So no form of "to be" will correctly connect
them.

Andreas

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