Re: [dita] Spec references to the solidus character

["Don Day (LbW)" <donday@learningbywrote.com>]

I'll add that elaboration to the DITA 1.3 proposal/update item that I 
need to log about this issue, since we are not changing anything for now.

BTW, I think a discussion about terminology in specs could be an 
interesting blog post for someone in the TC, thereby helping to at least 
get the discussion into searchable space for now.
--
Don

On 11/3/2010 4:01 PM, Su-Laine Yeo wrote:
> I doubt there is any chance of people taking the spec to literally mean
> the solidus character. But we should change "solidus" to "slash" anyway.
>
> A co-worker remarked that to make things perfectly clear, we should say
> somewhere that everywhere we mention the term "slash" we are referring
> to the Unicode character U+002F.
>
> Su-Laine
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:05 PM
> To: Su-Laine Yeo; dita
> Subject: Re: [dita] Spec references to the solidus character
>
> For myself I was trained at IBM to prefer "solidus" rather than "slash"
> because of some slang associations with "slash" in British English. I
> was
> not aware that there was in fact a separate solidus character in
> Unicode.
>
> Given that the I would think that correcting "solidus" to "slash" would
> be
> appropriate if there is any chance of people taking the spec to
> literally
> mean the Unicode solidus character.
>
> If it's not possible to correct this sort of non-substantive typo before
> final publication then I would agree it should be an erratum.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
> On 10/27/10 12:53 PM, "Su-Laine Yeo"<su-laine.yeo@justsystems.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In a few places, the DITA 1.2 spec refers to a "solidus" character.
> E.g.
>> "For references to non-topic elements within topics and non-topicref
>> elements within maps, the value of the @keyref attribute is a key
> name,
>> a solidus ("/"), and the ID of the target element."
>>
>> I believe what is meant here is a "forward slash", not a solidus which
>> is a different character and doesn't work in file paths.
>> See:
>> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_(punctuation)
>> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)
>>
>> Is this a big enough problem to require an erratum to the spec?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Su-Laine
>>
>>
>> Su-Laine Yeo
>> Solutions Consultant
>> JustSystems Canada, Inc.
>> Office: 778-327-6356
>> syeo@justsystems.com
>>
>>
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