From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Typo in Org Manual
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:04:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kv11hs2.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878skdrepp.fsf@gmail.com
Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> writes:
> Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> But how about instead changing the first sentence of the "Range
>> references" section from
>>
>> You may reference a rectangular range of fields by specifying two
>> field references connected by two dots ‘..’.
>>
>> to
>>
>> You may reference a rectangular range of fields, including the ends,
>> by specifying two field references connected by two dots ‘..’.
>>
>> ?
>
> I think even better would be to just add the following after the
> sentence mentioned above:
>
> The ends are included in the range.
>
>
Yes, a general statement (outside of this particular example) seems
like a good idea. Then changing the "six" to "nine" does not need any
further elaboration.
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-06 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 13:32 Typo in Org Manual Sebastian Miele
2020-03-06 4:45 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-03-06 9:43 ` Sebastian Miele
2020-03-06 9:54 ` Sebastian Miele
2020-03-06 18:04 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2020-03-07 4:14 ` Kyle Meyer
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