RE: editing -- oops, correction

["Cruikshank, David W" <David.Cruikshank@PSS.Boeing.com>]

I too am leaning toward option 2 also...any others?

thx...Dave

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> From: 	Dieter@isodraw.de[SMTP:Dieter@isodraw.de]
> Reply To: 	Dieter
> Sent: 	Tuesday, April 10, 2001 2:26 PM
> To: 	Dieter; Cruikshank, David W; Lofton Henderson
> Cc: 	cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: 	Re: editing -- oops, correction
> 
> Lofton,
> 
> see my comments below:
> 
> > I think the change is correct, but the wording of the sections is poor
> (who
> > wrote this stuff?!):
> John.
> 
> > ### begin ###
> > pictid - The pictid [Ed: use same font as 1st word] keyword indicates that
> > selection of the picture to be viewed is by the id of the picture, which
> is
> > the id parameter in the BEGIN PICTURE element. The picture id value is the
> > first, required parameter associated with the keyword (see EBNF), and
> there
> > may be a second associated parameter, which is an optional picture
> behavior
> > specification.  If the metafile does not contain a picture with the
> > specified picture id value, the first picture in the metafile is chosen.
> Agreed.
> 
> > pictseqno - The pictseqno [Ed: use same font as 1st word] keyword
> indicates
> > that selection of the picture to be viewed is by the sequence number of
> the
> > picture in the metafile. "1" is the first picture, "2" is the second
> > picture, etc. The picture sequence number value is the first, required
> > parameter associated with the keyword (see EBNF), and there may be a
> second
> > associated parameter, whose value is an optional picture behavior
> > specification.  If the specified picture sequence number value exceeds the
> > number of pictures in the metafile, the last picture is displayed.
> Agreed.
> 
> > ### end ###
> >
> > Now, the use of "1" (instead of 1) made me look back to the EBNF.  We
> > already have a bug fix to the [0-9]+, to prevent the value 0 (ZERO).  So
> > how about this:
> >
> > picseqno ::= (non-zero-digit)(digit)*
> > [...]
> > non-zero-digit ::= "1" | ... | "9"
> > digit ::= "0" | digit
> >
> > Of course, this prevents you from writing picture sequence numbers with
> > leading zeros, "001".  Does anyone care?  If someone objects to this
> > change, then we can leave it as (digit)+ (which is better, I think, than
> > [0-9]+), and add to the 3.1.2.1, before the "exceeds number of pictures"
> > sentence, "The specified picture sequence number value shall be positive."
> >
> > Please comment:  option 1 (enforce positive via EBNF change, which has the
> > "no leading" ); or, option 2 (enforce positive via words in 3.1.2.1).
> This is my preference, but any of the three sounds good to me.
> 
> >
> > Or option 3:  (digit)*(non-zero-digit)(digit)*   (BNF expression for
> > positive, leading zeros allowed!).
> >
> 
> Dieter
> 
> 
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