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 <h2>Adding new notes</h2>
 <p>
-  In general, you will probably do most MIDI editing with the mouse in object
-  mode. This allows you to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter
-  their properties (see below). But at some point, you're going to want to
-  <em>add</em> notes to a MIDI region using the mouse, and if they are to be
-  anything other than a fixed length, this means dragging with the mouse.
-  Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object
-  mode, there needs to be some way for you to tell Ardour that you are trying
-  to <dfn>draw</dfn> new notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways
-  do this. One is to leave the mouse in object mode and
-  <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag. The other, useful if you plan to
-  enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into
+  In general, most MIDI editing will probably be done with the mouse in object
+  mode. This allows to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter their
+  properties (see below). But at some point, <em>adding</em> notes to a  MIDI
+  region using the mouse will mean dragging with the mouse. Since this would
+  normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object mode, there needs
+  to be some way to tell Ardour that the user is trying to <dfn>draw</dfn> new
+  notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways do this. One is to leave
+  the mouse in object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag. The
+  other, useful to enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into
   <kbd class="menu">Draw Notes</kbd> mode, which will now interpret any drags
-  and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, you cannot
-  use Draw Notes mode while using region-level editing.
+  and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, Draw Notes mode
+  can not be used while using region-level editing.
 </p>
 
 <p>So, to summarize:</p>
 <table class="dl">
-  <tr><th>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></th>
-  <td>
-    leave <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> disabled, use object,
-    range or other mouse modes
-  </td></tr>
-  <tr><th>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></th>
-  <td>enable <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd>and use mouse object mode</td></tr>
-  <tr><th>Adding new notes</th>
-  <td>
-    enable "Note Level Editing" and then either
-    <ul>
-      <li>use mouse object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag,
-      or</li>
-      <li>use mouse draw mode.</li>
-    </ul>
-  </td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></th>
+        <td><kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> disabled, using object,
+        range or other mouse modes</td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></th>
+        <td><kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> enabled, and using mouse object mode</td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Adding new notes</th>
+        <td>enabling "Note Level Editing" and then either
+          <ul>
+            <li>using mouse object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag, or</li>
+            <li>using mouse draw mode.</li>
+          </ul>
+        </td></tr>
 </table>
 <p>
-  Note that is also a
-  <a href="@@step-entry">a step entry editor</a>
-  allowing you to enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides.
+  Note that is also a <a href="@@step-entry">a step entry editor</a> allowing to
+  enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides.
 </p>
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