Dan,
The "rule" about not ending a sentence with a preposition has always
been, in fact, a style choice - not a rule of grammar. AFAIK most
modern style guides do not support this "rule." (Same for several
other "rules" we were taught in school.)
Jean
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:45 AM Dan Lewis
I have checked the "cleaned" files and replaced the ones in the
Published folder for the book.
Thanks for the quick work, Martin.
And thanks to everyone who worked on this book.
Jean
Jean
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:16 AM Martin Srebotnjak wrote:
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> Hi, Jean et. al.,
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> I cleaned the files with
I have finished updating Chapter 3, Charts and Graphs, and placed the
file in the Draft folder ready for first review.
As with earlier chapters, please do not waste time reviewing the front
matter or the template used for these chapters (other than adding your
name to the list of
Hi Annie,
Just a quick clarification about the Calc Guide status tracking
spreadsheet. When you take a chapter for first review, just put your
initials in column G ("Rev1") and fill in column H ("Return date") when
you return the reviewed file to the Feedback folder. There's no need to
This is going quicker than I thought. I have uploaded chapter 1 to the
feedback folder. Changes logged into the guide status.
I made one minor change concerning whether a sentence should end with a
preposition. In high school, this was a no-no. (OK, this was 60 years
ago.) What is the more
This took less time than I thought. I have uploaded Chapter 0 to the
feedback folder. I have also downloaded chapters 1 & 2 for review. ETA
is 3 Aug 2020. Guide status has been updated.
Dan
On 7/21/20 10:46, Samantha Hamilton wrote:
Hello all,
I have uploaded the Contributors' Guide,
I am downloading Chapter 0 for a second review; changes made on the
Guide spreadsheet. (ETA 3 Aug 2020)
I am planning to review the other chapters as I get time. I also want to
bring myself up to date on the latest changes.
Dan
On 7/21/20 10:46, Samantha Hamilton wrote:
Hello all,
I have
When I first began working on the present Base Guide, I was translating
the chapter from Base Handbuch (German). For that I needed to create
clean file before translating them. All 10 of the files after cleaning
were in fact bigger as you have discovered.
Dan
On 7/31/20 13:16, Martin
Hi, Jean et. al.,
I cleaned the files with the odtclean.py script downloaded from
"English/Contributor Resources" map (uploaded 2 years ago).
I hope this is the latest script, as some styles have been recently renamed
etc. Maybe Miloš can confirm. The files seem bigger, but that might be
because
