http://bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-03 15:12 ------- (In reply to comment #7) > Good point, Chris. Apologies for missing your original comment on this one. > I'd rather not use a vertical list for layout, simply for aesthetic reasons I know, my original comment was just to give a general idea anyway rather than specific wording to use. > (we'd end up with a single sentence paragraph following the list). So, I can > think of the following wordings to make the command line knowledge explicit: > > "In particular, as an absolute minimum, the reader should already have the > ability to use the command line (shell) to copy or move files and directories, > list directory and file contents, and change the current directory." > > "In particular, as an absolute minimum, the reader should already have the > ability to use the command line (shell) to perform the following operations: > copy or move files and directories; list directory and file contents; and > change > the current directory." > > I don't know if one is particularly more readable or grammatically correct > than > the other, so your input is more than welcome. I don't think either one is grammatically "better" than the other, but I personally prefer the first one since I generally don't like statements like "do the following:" unless they're followed by some kind of numbered list. I tend to think that if a list is short enough just to make a single sentence out of it then tacking on "do the following:" is extraneous. Maybe that's just me... :) ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
