On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Jason Gilmore wrote:
I'm a book editor (Apress), and this subject often comes up. While many
technical writing style guides shun the use of contractions, I think the
perception of being too informal or confusing to non-native English
speakers is rather outdated, and
As for the regex, I can see nothing wrong with it!
preg_match(!^(.+)hr!s, $content, $_index1);
This says capture everything in from the beginning of the text to just
in front of hr. Easy. But no output!
thats what we need to find out.. If it is a problem in PHP/PCRE, in the XSL
sheets
No way
We cannot start breaking translators' work. Anyway, what's the problem with
contractions? When I studied English (British) I learned that contractions
weren't so formal, but they aren't wrong per se.
Any English native speaker correct me if I'm wrong.
But thanks for your offer,
@lists.php.net; Richard Quadling
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Contractions in the English PHP Documentation and
supporting scripts/files.
No way
We cannot start breaking translators' work. Anyway, what's the problem
with contractions? When I studied English (British) I learned that
contractions
OOI, should all contractions be removed?
I did a quick check on the entire phpdoc/en directory.
Looking for aren't, can't, shouldn't, won't and wouldn't.
Found 167 occurrences.
Increased that to the entire phpdoc directory and got 362.
I can easily correct the phpdoc/en ones and provide a
On 05 July 2006 12:48, Nuno Lopes wrote:
No way
We cannot start breaking translators' work. Anyway, what's
the problem with
contractions? When I studied English (British) I learned that
contractions weren't so formal, but they aren't wrong per se.
Any English native speaker correct
Ford, Mike wrote:
On 05 July 2006 12:48, Nuno Lopes wrote:
No way
We cannot start breaking translators' work. Anyway, what's
the problem with
contractions? When I studied English (British) I learned that
contractions weren't so formal, but they aren't wrong per se.
Any English
I'm a book editor (Apress), and this subject often comes up. While many
technical writing style guides shun the use of contractions, I think the
perception of being too informal or confusing to non-native English
speakers is rather outdated, and believe contractions improve
readability because
