Hi :) It's good to ask and i think it usually leads to better understanding and better documentation. It can be frustrating and we don't have a lot of time to discuss each sentence of all the books in depth so you might have to "make a judgement call" and adapt what is written to "fit cultural differences" better. On the other hand some people enjoy discussing this sort of detail and find it interesting.
a = one of a number of identical (or perhaps just very similar) items/people/events/ideas the = there's only one that is relevant I thought the paragraph got a bit muddled in it's use of a&the but usually readers just skim over oddities like that. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 22/4/12, Jihui Choi <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jihui Choi <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [Typo] a weird sentence in ch1, writer guide. To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 22 April, 2012, 2:10 On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it is "the floating Table toolbar" and "the floating Bullets and > Numbering toolbar." It is a specific toolbar and "the" applies in each case. > > Is that your concern? > Well, don't get me wrong, please. I don't want to make any argue about english grammar. and I don't have any capability for that. It's simple. If someone says, there's no problem, then no problems. And if there's something unclear, you guys could discuss about that. I wish I could join in, though. To be honest, I don't know the difference between "a" and "the" well. Though I know the basic concept of course. When I read the sentence, I thought the sentence might be not clear and a writer might have made a small mistake. So I just asked you in this mailing list to check that sentence again just in case. -- Regards, JiHui Choi -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
