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From: David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minute suggestion for documentation, chapter 12.5 (export to html)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:50:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo3s7j1h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130916121138.GC2637@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:11:38 +0200")

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Gijs,
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:54:40PM +0200, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
>> I have a really wee suggestion for a change in the documentation that
>> comes with Org-mode version 7.9.3f and in Org 8.1 (on the web)
>> 
>> In chapter 12.5 on Html export there is this section
>> 
>> ,----
>> | 12.5.9 CSS support
>> | 
>> | You can also give style information for the exported file.
>> `----
>> 
>> To my non-English eyes the word "also" is ambigous. Earlier this month
>> it made me look all over that chapter for /other/ ways to give style
>> information.
>> 
>> I think that "also" refers to "12.5.3 Quoting HTML tags" but I am not
>> sure.
>> 
>> So, maybe the above quoted text for 12.5.9 could be improved by writing:
>> 
>> Next to including simple HTML tags (see 12.5.3), style information can
>> be added to the exported file.
>
> I think also here suggests style information is optional; as in, you may
> or may not include it.
>
> Maybe others can chime in with their opinion?

I think the "also" is not meant to be about "other ways to give style
information", but about "other things you could do that are not the same
as the immediately-preceding item".

Gijs - would it be clearer, in your opinion, to replace the word "also"
with "optionally"?

-- 
David R

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-16 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16 11:54 minute suggestion for documentation, chapter 12.5 (export to html) Gijs Hillenius
2013-09-16 12:11 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-16 17:50   ` David Rogers [this message]
2013-09-17  5:19     ` Carsten Dominik

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