Actually, on second thought, and as a matter of
principle, I don't know - when it comes to approving a design, maybe we
should be able to resurrect old objections if the final design doesn't
satisfy and instead begs all these old questions over again.
Nothing's in the standard until the design is approved - and even then,
at some later date we could all decide we did something wrong, and
deprecate the solution until it can be eliminated from the standard.
--Dana
Dana Spradley wrote:
I agree. If opposing this innovation had been
important to me, I should have done so before we approved the proposal.
On the other hand, I would like to question Chris's notion that since
topics appear in the table of contents, they shouldn't appear in the
index.
The index provides an alternative, alphabetical method for looking up
topics of interest - instead of going over the TOC with a fine tooth
comb to find what you're interested in.
And I think that may turn out to be how many authors end up using the
index range feature - to index entire topics.
Should the implemention give them some easy method to accomplish that -
by inserting one element instead of two?
--Dana
JoAnn Hackos wrote:
Hi Chris et al.
We're just speculating about the
concept of page range. I'm sure we all continue to agree that page
ranges are appropriate for the model. I was part of the earlier debate,
as you know.
Let's concentrate on the
mechanism. However, it is still a good idea to advocate best practices
in white papers on the indexing issue, just as we have tried to do with
the Translation SC's best practice on indexing. You don't have to do it
this way, but it might help.
Let's all focus on the mechanism
at this point.
JoAnn
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From: Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:37 AM
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Subject: [dita] Reapproving approved proposals
This
is more of a procedural question here, touched off by our reopening the
indexterm debate. Months ago, we spent weeks debating, compromising and
writing up proposals, DTDs and language reference material for indexing
enhancements. We voted twice to approve this. But now the whole thing
is reopened for debate and it looks like everything is up for grabs
again.
What
does it mean to approve something, if it can come apart at any time?
Chris
