DITA Translation Subcommittee holiday break

["Gershon L Joseph" <gershon@tech-tav.com>]

Hi all,

The DITA Translation Subcommittee will take a well-deserved break for the
next few weeks. Our next meeting will be on Monday 8 January 2007 at the
usual time.

I have attached corrected minutes (thanks Kevin). The only changes are the
meeting date (4 December, not 12 December) and the roll call (I omitted
Kevin from the list of attendees).

Best Regards,
Gershon

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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 4 December 2006

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 4 December 2006 at 08:00am PT
for 1 hour, 25 minutes.

1.  Roll call

    Present:
        Gershon Joseph
        JoAnn Hackos
        Bruce Esrig
        Rodolfo Raya
        Paul Grosso
        Robert Anderson
        Nancy Harrison
        Don Day
        Andrzej Zydron
        Kevin Farwell

    Regrets:
        Nick Rosenthal
        
2.  Accept Minutes from 20 November 2006

    Accepted (JoAnn moved, Nancy seconded).

3.  Review open action items

    ACTION: Nancy to add a statement for inline multilingual content. Nancy 
    and Bruce will try to find a new online example.

        CONTINUED. Gershon and Bruce to submit two more exmaples based on two real-life
        use cases.

    ACTION: Andrzej and Rodolfo to revise the conref best practice document

        CONTINUED, as follows:
        * Rodolfo to work with Andrzej to add section on Japanese.
        * Andrzej to add new variables section, with examples. Nancy to provide example
        English text.

    ACTION: All committee members. Provide feedback on Robert Anderson’s new 
    draft of the inline elements table
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20570/elementsOnePointOne.html

        CONTINUED. Everyone please review for discussion next week.

    ACTION: Gershon and Don will present the approved best practices on 
    indexing and Translation Memory as committee drafts for approval by the 
    DITA Technical Committee.

        CONTINUED. Gershon posted the final BP document on the OASIS DITA TC site
        and asked TC members to review it. TC will address it when it's next on 
        the TC agenda.

        TC in agreement our BP documents should be broadly based, for usability 
        reasons.

        Don: We could add a flag to indicate DITA-specific content.

        JoAnn: Add purpose statement that it's best practice for DITA and some 
        of the content also applies to other XML dialects.

        ACTION: Gershon to add the statement to the BP document and discuss on TC.

        COMPLETED.

    ACTION: JoAnn to ask Charles Pau and David Walters to review the 
    forthcoming best practices on conref, multi-language documents, and others.

        CONTINUED.

    ACTION: Everyone to review the document JoAnn posted on 13 November (subject: 
    Document from Christian Lieske).

        CONTINUED.

4   Returning business: 

4.1 Review Paul Grosso's comments on the Indexing Best Practice.

        Paul: Example 2 - transformed index term is confusing

        Concensus: Replace the 2 nested index terms to two single-level index 
        terms

        Example 3: Replace example with example using <p> with more than one
        sentence.

        Example 4: Add title to the example. It's a special case of example 2, 
        so it should follow example 2.

        Example 5: Move the index term to prcede "properties". Also add intro
        text to the example.

        Paul: Think about moving the examples to the bullets, or reproduce the 
        bullet text in the examples.

        ACTION: JoAnn and Gershon to update the BP document and submit to 
        list for review.

4.2 Review new drafts of the conref best practice


5.  New Business:

    None.

6.  Open:
    
    None.

-- Meeting adjourned at 9:25 --