[Framers] OT: Grammar/Cross References

Carol J. Elkins celkins at awrittenword.com
Wed Jun 26 09:56:41 PDT 2019


Craig, have the cross-references where this abbreviation occurs been 
mentioned earlier in the text? I'm just wondering if ff might mean 
something like the Latin terms "ibid" or "op. cit." that are used in 
bibliographies. Just a thought.

Carol

At 10:47 AM 6/26/2019, A Craig wrote:
>My problem is with some of the cross references as many of them are 
>followed by the abbreviation "ff". (eg, " See Section 11.3 ff. ") 
>According to a German engineer currently in training here, "f" means 
>"folgende" (following) and "ff" is "fort folgende" (continue 
>following). Is anyone familiar with this format? And is there an 
>equivalent in English?



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