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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

  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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