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Re: Doc: CG Clarifying about Examples with overrides (issue 7013043)
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Doc: CG Clarifying about Examples with overrides (issue 7013043) |
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Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:42:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
James <address@hidden> writes:
> On 26 December 2012 11:00, <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Documentation/contributor/doc-work.itexi:155: The correct way to add
>> [changes like this] to the documentation is to
>>> > Why the [] ?
>>
>>
>>> This is a standard way to to clarify the antecedent.
>> Another frequent use is to make explicit what object a pronoun in a
>> quoted section is referring to if the scope of the quotation does not
>> allow deducing it.
>
> That's the 'antecedent' thingy I referred to.
Well, ok, but again I know it only when something is inserted into a
quotation, where original author and editor differ. Our manual pretends
to be a single text, so one would use () instead of [] for clarifying
interjections.
> I thought I might get responses like this, which is why I rewrote the
> sentence.
Smart move.
> Life is too short.
But at least it is getting longer all the time.
> Merry Christmas
The same to you and many more.
--
David Kastrup
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