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Subject: RE: [dita] Last call for top DITA issues


Paul,
We are planning to take it offline and discuss things next week to figure out a good approach for the next round of prioritization.
Jen
 

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From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul.prescod@blastradius.com]
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:59 AM
To: Erik Hennum; Esrig, Bruce (Bruce)
Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [dita] Last call for top DITA issues

Guys: As self-appointed group minimalist I would argue that we should defer the glossaries.
 
 * there seem to be many open questions
 * glossaries can be authored "by hand"
 * multi-use glossaries can be created with conditional text and conref
 * we can't do everything at once
 
Other opinions?


From: Erik Hennum [mailto:ehennum@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:43 AM
To: Esrig, Bruce (Bruce)
Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org; Paul Prescod
Subject: RE: [dita] Last call for top DITA issues

Hi, Bruce:

My apologies for neglecting to clarify the term concerns -- I think the existing glossary proposal already handles both the case where the same term has multiple senses:

<glossentry id="ac-air">
<glossterm>AC</glossterm>
<glossdef>Air conditioning</glossdef>
</glossentry>
...
<glossentry id="ac-electric">
<glossterm>AC</glossterm>
<glossdef>Alternating current</glossdef>
</glossentry>

It would be up to the processing to collate by term and format definitions on output.

The proposal also includes a <glsynonym> element to specify synonym terms with the same meaning.

If one of the themes of DITA 1.1 / DITA 1.0.5 is enabling books, I'm wondering whether the shortdesc enhancements would be important for the narrative glue.


Hoping that's interesting,


Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com

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RE: [dita] Last call for top DITA issues

1. How about a simple generalization of task to allow tables and graphics in parallel with steps.
That would leave the following compatible extensions for the future:
- the div elements
- nested steps

2. For glossary, I'd still like to close on the issue of terms with multiple senses. This was raised privately with Erik Hennum earlier, but I'd be glad to discuss it more broadly in case it could easily cause incompatible changes if we decided to tackle it after a simple glossary mechanism was already fielded.

Specifically, we have cases where a project uses the same term in multiple senses, and being able to gloss the correct sense would be really helpful. For example: AC := i. Air Conditioning, ii. Alternating Current. It's just an abbreviation, but I can imagine it happening with terms as well. Quick, define "interface" in a way that is specific enough to indicate how you mean it in three interesting contexts and yet not ambiguous when glossed. Fun challenge, right?

The opposite also happens: multiple terms for a single sense. This might be easy for DITA to handle because of conref.

Best wishes,

Bruce

====

To merge the threads ... JoAnn Hackos wrote:

Which index-related issues would you prioritize?

- #44 Keep indextermref (or redefine its function)

- #45 Add See, See Also indexing elements

- #45a Add sort order indexing elements

- #45b Add page range indexing elements

I wouldn't leave the others out if we can manage it.



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