Re: [office] Naming advice on multi-parts

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 10:48 -0700, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> One question I thought of after the meeting ended.   Do we need to do
> anything for the abbreviated names to make the file names sort
> naturally by part?  This would be a good property to enable, I think. 
> 
> Right now we're proposing abbreviated names like: 
> 
> odf-intro 
> odf-packages 
> odf-documents 
> odf-openformula 
> 
> and so on. 
> 
> The current file naming conventions don't say anything about parts.
>  But note that putting a part identifier after our abbreviation would
> not sort by part.  But putting the part number like this would: 
> 
> odf-part01-intro 
> odf-part02-packages 
> odf-part03-documents 
> odf-part04-openformula 
> 
> 
> (In other words, do we need an abbreviation for parts that are
> separate from the abbreviation for the overall specification?) 
> 

I think it is a great idea to have them sort correctly. Having a 'part'
or 'p' or so may be important to avoid confusing the part number with an
ODF version, especially since it would follow odf. WHile we don't need
the leading 0 at this time, it is probably could future planning to
include it already.

Andreas

-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
Concordia University College of Alberta

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