Re: manual style

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> The Oxford English Grammar (1996) by Sidney Greenbaum suggests to use generic
> singulars they, them, their:

I second this.

> you would write
> 
> "If you want to do foo, you should write bar in your LilyPond score".
> 

IMO, it makes the text awkward, since almost every sentence will have
to be prefixed with "if you want to do foo".   I think that "you" has
a place in a text where "I" is also featured.

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