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Subject: Re: [office] Glossary for 1.2


2008/7/16 Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>:
> Dave Pawson wrote:

>> Judge the clarity by viewing it as a new reader.
>>
>>
>
> If you read the JTC 1 Directives on standards you will find that standards
> are written presuming a great deal of knowledge on the part of the reader.

Not helpful, since it is too general to use.


> It is what makes them short enough to be useful (well, in some cases).
> Granted there is a school of tutorial style standards but I am not a member.

I'm with you there.
Equally I hate poor/no definitions in any standard.
Clarity is the goal.
I'm (reluctantly) following the W3C school of standards,
i.e. a standard is written for an implementer.
(Equally, I've pushed for the 'annotated specification'
so ordinary users can read it, but that should be a separate document)


>>>
>>> Personally I wouldn't define any XML terminology or anything that is
>>> commonly known in office markup circles.
>> "commonly known in office markup circles." ?
>>  No thanks. That's exclusive.
>>
>>
>
> And what is wrong with being "exclusive?" As I mentioned, I don't intend to
> define XML either. That is exclusive.
> Or is it only certain kinds of "exclusive" that bother you?

Clearly. We all have our own fields of knowledge.
I'm new to 'office markup circles'.
I'm not new to XML.

>If weight on "odd term." What is an "odd term" to you from an
> XSL-FO perspective might not be an "odd term" to me and vice versa.

It's called a balanced view. That's where a group of users comes in.
To produce that balance.


>
> The problem in this sort of discussion is that everyone (including me) has a
> set of examples in mind that they don't ever trot out. This is not an issue
> that can be settled in the abstract.

Not abstract, I'm referring to odf 1.2, hoping to improve clarity wrt 1.1



>  I wonder if we can use one of the mechanisms in ODF 1.2 to
> mark some term and its definition, in situ and then for the annotated
> version, have that automatically extracted and sorted into a definitions
> section?

If the definitions are in another document they won't be normative?
Wrong IMO

 That should be doable and other occurrences of that term could have
> automatic links generated to that definition.
(Easy if we had easy xml:id attributes :-)


>
> That would satisfy my concern that we distinguish between the standard and
> the handbook on the same subject.

I don't see a 'definitions' as ancilliary.

regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk


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