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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml index 1a1d785488..6116b4d6a3 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. --> -<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="writing-style"> +<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" + xml:id="writing-style"> <title>Writing Style</title> <sect1 xml:id="writing-style-tips"> @@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ Avoid empty phrases like <quote>in order to</quote>, which usually just means <quote>to</quote>. Avoid potentially patronizing words like <quote>basically</quote>. Avoid Latin - terms like <quote>i.e.</quote> or <quote>cf.</quote>, which + terms like <quote>i.e.,</quote> or <quote>cf.</quote>, which may be unknown outside of academic or scientific groups.</para> @@ -248,7 +250,8 @@ </varlistentry> </variablelist> - <para>For more information about writing style, see <link xlink:href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/">Elements of + <para>For more information about writing style, see <link + xlink:href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/">Elements of Style</link>, by William Strunk.</para> </sect1> @@ -504,12 +507,16 @@ GB. Hardware compression …</literallayout> <row> <entry>CD-ROM</entry> - <entry><tag class="starttag">acronym</tag><literal>CD-ROM</literal><tag class="endtag">acronym</tag></entry> + <entry><tag + class="starttag">acronym</tag><literal>CD-ROM</literal><tag + class="endtag">acronym</tag></entry> </row> <row> <entry>DoS (Denial of Service)</entry> - <entry><tag class="starttag">acronym</tag><literal>DoS</literal><tag class="endtag">acronym</tag></entry> + <entry><tag + class="starttag">acronym</tag><literal>DoS</literal><tag + class="endtag">acronym</tag></entry> </row> <row> @@ -573,7 +580,9 @@ GB. Hardware compression …</literallayout> <entry><tag class="starttag">application</tag><literal>Subversion</literal><tag class="endtag">application</tag></entry> <entry>Do not refer to the Subversion application as <literal>SVN</literal> in upper case. To refer to the - command, use <tag class="starttag">command</tag><literal>svn</literal><tag class="endtag">command</tag>.</entry> + command, use <tag + class="starttag">command</tag><literal>svn</literal><tag + class="endtag">command</tag>.</entry> </row> <row> |