[texhax] (OT) English native speaker needed -- translation problem

Stefan Löffler st.loeffler at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 15:25:59 CEST 2011


Hi,

On 2011-04-06 15:13, Susan Dittmar wrote:
> I need help with a small matter of how to phrase something "correcly".
> It will be part of a highly official document, and I feel quite
> uncomfortable with the translation we paid for with respect to this little
> thing. I am sure one of you can help me.
>
> How would one write---as short as possible---"on page 31 and those
> following"?
>
> In German, this would be "Seite 31 ff".

I'm not an English native speaker, but http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ff.
(with the trailing period!) would suggest that ff. is also used in
English, albeit with slightly different formating rules (no space
before, always a period after).

HTH
Stefan


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