Jonathan Wakely <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> writes:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:46:47AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
Tobias Schwinger <tschwinger@neoscientists.org> writes:
A tag encapsulates one or more aspects of the kind of type.
Tags which only encapsulate variations of a single aspect are called *aspect tags* in the following text (see reference).
^^^ links to:
Lovely! "which" should be "that," though, at least by U.S. English ^^^^^^^^^^^^ rules" Normally, "which" should only follow a comma in a fragment that could be removed without altering the meaning of a sentence, as in "I felt lousy, which might have been good since I didn't want to go anyway."
That seems wrong to me. A style-guide which requires that is being a bit picky IMHO.
Tell that to my publisher.
c.f. Chambers: http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?title=21st&query=which Your rule seems only to apply to the 3rd definition, which is not the sense in which Tobias is using "which".
British English has it's own, different, rules. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com