[boring quibble] was Re: DR 09-0068: SML, Styles: name attribute length

Rick Jelliffe rjelliffe at allette.com.au
Thu Jun 11 08:36:17 CEST 2009


A minor drafting quibble.  Contractions like 'doesn't' and isn't' are 
artifacts of speech and not really appropriate for formal documents. 
They distract readers by raising the expectation that the sentence is 
somehow a transcript of speech or colloquial writing.  Why not just 
write "Not got that font? No worries!" if a conversational style is 
acceptable?

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe



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