From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tex/context/base/strc-ref.mkii: Typo. s/mechsnism/mechanism/
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 23:27:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91C30CAA-E925-4D1B-BE23-C1346541C94B@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296831193.3967.29.camel@mattotaupa>
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> The same typo is present in the ConTeXt user manual [1] in chapter 13 »Figures«.
>
> There is also a wording issue in my opinion.
>
> Normally, users need not concern themselves …
>
> I would change that to
>
> Normally, users do not need to concern themselves …
>
> or
>
> Normally, users need not to concern themselves ….
The original wording is fine. Your two suggestions are unidiomatic (1) or ungrammatical (2).
Thomas
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