When is an OASIS change too substantive to be handled in an Errata?
Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamilton at acm.org
Thu Mar 25 20:51:44 CET 2010
I forgot. The difference between overlay and overlie is more than
terms-of-art. Grammatically, one is usually a noun (but is verbable, as all
good English nouns are), the other always a verb.
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1.8 ODF 1.0 section 15.27.31 Wrap Influence on Position: N0942:95
resolution, apart from a grammar agreement problem, depends on a subtle
distinction between the use of overlie/overlay and overlies/overlays. It is
not clear which "overly" was intended to be and whether the difference
between overlay and overlie as a term of art in publishing layout would be
misunderstood in the first place.
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