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Subject: Re: [office] ISO formatting rules
Rob, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > > Just following up on an action item. > > ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 "Rules for the structure and drafting of > international standards" is the style guideline we'll need to follow > in ODF 1.2. Under PAS submission rules, our first submission did not > need to adhere to these rules, but subsequent submissions are not > excepted. > > It can be downloaded from here: > http://www.iec.ch/tiss/iec/Directives-Part2-Ed5.pdf > > In particular, note the following: > > -- Section 5.2 has important info on how clauses are numbered, and why > things like "hanging paragraphs" are deprecated. > -- Annex H "Verbal forms for the expression of provisions" has the > rules for using "shall", "shall not", etc. > -- Annex I should be looked at for OpenFormula for whenever we refer > to units of measurement, such as the CONVERT() function > > If you have any questions, ask Patrick ;-) > Gee, thanks! ;-) Actually the less I have to change editorially the quicker the work will go. BTW, I got word from ISO today that "draw:page 9.2.4.8" is an acceptable cross reference. In a listing of cross references there is no need to have "See/see" or even parens around the reference (in a listing of references). Still need the parens in a sentence were the name is not explicitly used. We distinguish the cross references by style anyway and the "See/see," the usual "-" and parens are legacy formatting practices. That may not sound like much but when you consider that ODF 1.2 will have literally thousands of cross references it starts to make a real difference both in terms of the presentation as well as in recording the references. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick > -Rob > _________________________ > > Rob Weir > Software Architect > Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software > IBM Software Group > > email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com > phone: 1-978-399-7122 > blog: http://www.robweir.com/blog/ -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)
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