- From: Alan Stearns via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:54:50 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
astearns has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:
== [css-flexbox] Clarify sentence construction in max-content flex fraction step ==
The first step in https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox/#intrinsic-main-sizes has a fairly complex second sentence. I had to read it twice to note that the parentheticals referred to the same result in the first clause. Scanning quickly I assigned the parentheticals to their closest sentence part. I think my problem is that the parenthetical came after the preposition.
In other words, in this construction "if the result is not zero, divide it by {(some parenthetical) its foo}" I'm scanning {} as a prepositional phrase that's the object of the verb. It took me a bit to notice the word 'result' and fix my confusion.
I think it would be clearer to say "if the result is not zero, divide a positive result by … or a negative result by …"
Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1803 using your GitHub account
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