Hi Dave,
On 7/23/22 16:58, Dave Kemper wrote:
On 7/23/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
That's _still_ too general a claim, but it
will take me some time to find a way to articulate it well.
No need; we don't have to document our personal punctuation principles
here. We've resolved this tbl
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-24T12:36:43+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> And the Spanish rules also indicate that the level of isolation from
> the main text is, from more isolation to less isolation: em dash,
> commas, parentheses.
I don't have a citation for this, but my impression as a
At 2022-07-24T11:19:19+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> How about this middle paragraph, with the other two unaltered ones for
> context.
>
> The line immediately following the .TS token may specify region options:
> keywords that influence the interpretation or rendering of the region as
>
Hi Dave,
> However, even Branden's more stringent requirement can be met by
> turning the parenthetical sentence into a subordinate clause:
>
> They can be specified in any lettercase (unlike in AT tbl, which
> accepted only options with all characters in the same lettercase) and
> must be
At 2022-07-23T15:22:34+0100, Deri wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:47:55 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I hope to hear back from Deri regarding my recent questions about
> > URW font detection and foundry-management gymnastics.
>
> Sorry, Branden, I must have missed the question.
At 2022-07-23T09:58:54-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> No need; we don't have to document our personal punctuation principles
> here. [...] Discussions on general style philosophies can wait till
> our next Punctuation Pedants meeting. (The flyer for it is being held
> up while a subcommittee debates
On 7/23/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> That's _still_ too general a claim, but it
> will take me some time to find a way to articulate it well.
No need; we don't have to document our personal punctuation principles
here. We've resolved this tbl man-page issue (pending Alex's input,
but the
On Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:47:55 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I
> hope to hear back from Deri regarding my recent questions about URW font
> detection and foundry-management gymnastics.
Sorry, Branden, I must have missed the question. Please point me to it.
Cheers
Deri
At 2022-07-23T07:37:42-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 7/22/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I disagree with this, because I find it awkward to put one complete
> > sentence as a parenthetical inside another. I believe a sentence should
> > remain grammatical even if the parentheses are removed.
On 7/22/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I disagree with this, because I find it awkward to put one complete
> sentence as a parenthetical inside another. I believe a sentence should
> remain grammatical even if the parentheses are removed.
As a middle-ground opinion from another punctuation
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-23T01:08:18+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I'm reading tbl(1), so I'll report a few (minor issues) I found:
Thank you; I appreciate the review. Yours is the first it's gotten
since I rewrote it.
> [
>spaces, or tabs. (AT tbl accepted only options with
>
Hi Branden,
I'm reading tbl(1), so I'll report a few (minor issues) I found:
Within:
[
Region options
The line immediately following the .TS token may specify
region options: keywords that influence the interpreta‐
tion or rendering of the region as a whole or all
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