RE: [emix] Common and Specified words

["Gerald Gray" <gerald.gray@guiding-principle.com>]

Concur.

 

From: William Cox [mailto:wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 5:13 PM
To: emix@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [emix] Common and Specified words

 

I think that the convention (if not mentioned) should be described in say wd28 line 18 "Terminology". I'd suggest for consideration the following:

"Terms defined in this specification or used from specific cited references are capitalized; the same term not capitalized has its normal English meaning."

Thanks!

bill
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On 6/9/11 4:06 PM, Toby Considine wrote:

There are times in EMIX when we use common words prescriptively, meaning exactly as defined in the Spec

 

There are time when we are just using common English.

 

Price. Product. Schedule.

 

It is my impulse to separate the normative and non-normative use by the use of capitalization. All non-normative common use of the words occurs *before* the definition. A commenter suggests that all be capitalized.

 

Comments?

 

tc

 

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