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

Shawn Villaron shawnv at microsoft.com
Thu Jun 11 08:40:31 CEST 2009


Sure, I'll make that change.  But then you owe me an explanation over beer as to how this'll help improve the exchange of documents :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:rjelliffe at allette.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:36 PM
To: Shawn Villaron
Cc: SC 34 WG4
Subject: [boring quibble] was Re: DR 09-0068: SML, Styles: name attribute length

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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