Re: Bug#490805: ITP: txtreader -- text reader, mainly used for reading text originally novels

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch> writes:

> Quoth Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>, on 2008-07-19 00:44:04 +1200:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:23:27PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote:
> > >   Description     : text viewer, mainly used for reading text originally novels
> >
> > Do you mean:
> > 
> > Description     : text viewer, mainly used for reading text of original novels
> 
> I would more expect "text viewer, originally used for reading novels".

I would parse the text from LI Daobing as:

    Description: text viewer, mainly used for reading text that was originally the text of novels

and would refine it as:

    Description: text viewer for reading novels

> "text viewer, mainly used for reading text" seems fairly redundant to me.

Agreed.

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