Dear TC members,
Bob Jolliffe wrote:
> Dear TC Members
>
> 2008/12/15 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems
> < <mailto:>>
>
> 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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