Re: Typos in English manual

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Sunday, August 01, 2010 1:54 AM

> On 7/31/10 5:51 PM, "Wols Lists" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Do you put a comma after "that is"? Either way, it feels right. 
> > I'd be
> > inclined to say "don't stick a comma after a full stop", and yes 
> > I know
> > that the dot isn't really a full stop at this point but the 
> > sequence
> > "dot comma" still feels wrong.
>
> Of course, we might want to consider (for the sake
> of non-native english speakers) actually deprecating
> both i.e. and e.g., and replacing them with
> "that is" and "for example".

I agree with this.  A comma after "i.e." looks definitely
wrong to me as an English English speaker, but it's correct
after "that is".  So if a change is to be made let's go
for the full English expansions, with commas.

Trevor