From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 16 11:15:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E35A37B401; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:15:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFAC43EA9; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:15:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20021216191528003006k015e>; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:15:28 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBGJLi2J054201; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBGJLcnv054198; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issues with fdp-primer book References: <20021212233646.GA44211@v2project.com> <20021213080259.GA49067@v2project.com> <20021215001826.GA5083@gothmog.gr> <20021215030015.GA1228@xpee.worksforfood.com> <20021215235757.GL9246@gothmog.gr> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 16 Dec 2002 11:21:38 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20021215235757.GL9246@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: <7lof7lhirh.f7l@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > + PostScript or PDF output require that TeX is installed. > > > > ...require that TeX be installed. > > I'm not sure about this one. Is it wrong with "is"? I need to reread > my articles on English grammar it seems :) I suspect that using "is" is a common practice in writing and acceptable to most readers, at least by all but the few who know grammar well, and I suspect it is more common than "be" in spoken English. I happen to agree that "be" sounds more proper, but I've studied grammar little. But both can easily, if not properly, be interpreted (if one didn't know better) to mean that Tex must be RE-installed. It might be more clear as "require an installed Tex" (or awkwardly, "require that TeX has been installed", or even more awkwardly using "pre-installed"). BTW, I think that the first part actually should be "PostScript and PDF ^^^-NOTE output require" (or, though I could argue against "or" (it sounds like the writer doesn't know for which it's true), "Postscript or PDF output requires"). ^-NOTE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message