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Subject: Re: [dita] Spec references to the solidus character
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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >> generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >>
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