On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:22:30PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not entirely sure what the author had in mind but the current
> sentence, as it is, doesn't seem right somehow.
>
> The below is my best guess.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raf
>
hi.
what's there is fine. it is a common text blurb in many similar pages.
i'm not sure how to explain it grammatically, but in this context "that"
is just a way of pointing back to "macros".
so it would probably be nicer to say:
Macros can be defined, which will later be expanded in context.
relative pronouns...? "that" is a sloppy catch all, but it is valid.
jmc
> Index: usr.sbin/ldapd/ldapd.conf.5
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/ldapd/ldapd.conf.5,v
> retrieving revision 1.22
> diff -u -p -r1.22 ldapd.conf.5
> --- usr.sbin/ldapd/ldapd.conf.5 17 Oct 2016 14:03:17 -0000 1.22
> +++ usr.sbin/ldapd/ldapd.conf.5 29 Aug 2017 20:18:33 -0000
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ must be quoted.
> Arguments containing whitespace should be surrounded by double quotes
> .Pq \&" .
> .Pp
> -Macros can be defined that will later be expanded in context.
> +Macros can be defined and will later be expanded in context.
> Macro names must start with a letter, digit, or underscore,
> and may contain any of those characters.
> Macro names may not be reserved words (for example
>
