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Re: tetex-bin description



Hello Frank,

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>
>>>  This is the binary part of teTeX. This package contains all the
>>>  programs belonging to teTeX, i.e. the TeX compiler itself, and
>>>  variants for formats like e-TeX, pdfTeX, LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, etc.
>>
>> Etc means "and so one" from "et cetera". There should be no comma before
>> etc.
>
> In English, are you sure?  Isn't there's usually a comma before "and" in
> (US) english enumerations, like "Bob, Jim, and Sue"?

I've look in some resources in the net and found, the english grammar
allows the comma before "and" in an enumeration. But I can not say if it
is state of art.

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
Angenehme Worte sind nie wahr,
wahre Worte sind nie angenehm.



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