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Subject: DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 12 December 2006
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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 12 December 2006 (Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>) The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 12 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 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 --
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