Agenda for DITA Translation SC meeting

Hi all,

Here's the agenda for today's meeting.

1. Role call

2. Approve last week's minutes as sent.

3. Discuss Translating required-cleanup (pick up from email thread attached)

4. Pick up our discussion of inline elements. From the minutes of our
previous meeting 2 weeks ago:

3) Begin a discussion of the best practices surrounding inline elements.
    - best practice targeted primarily to authors
    - JoAnn asks each member to consider a use case for best practice for 
        handling inline elements, e.g. adding index items (immediately 
        following text of element) at end of paragraph
    - Nancy -- Insert index items separate from the text flow, but put at 
        beginning of paragraph.
    - DISCUSSION about how index markers are associated with the text
        - Italic and bold (and other typographic elements) -- should not be
used, 
            since target languages don't always have them.
        - Discussion on how to handle typographical element in translation
        - SUMMARY -- Semantic inline elements should not cause problems in 
            localizations
        - Andrzej - subflows (e.g. index markers) cause problems when being 
            translated as part of the string being translated.
        - Discussion...
    --ACTION-- Nancy to start draft of our best practice recommendations,
and 
        everyone to send use case or statement to Nancy during the week, 
        especially situations of potential problems like container elements 
        around bulleted list or any other area we may run into a problem.



Best Regards,
Gershon

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Gershon L Joseph
Member, OASIS DITA and DocBook Technical Committees
Director of Technology and Single Sourcing
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