From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Wed Jul 23 19:49:26 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h6NHnQ0K014158 for sc22wg5-domo; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:49:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from inf.rl.ac.uk (nfs7.inf.rl.ac.uk [130.246.72.7]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h6NHnLEc014153 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:49:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk) Received: from numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (numerical [130.246.8.23]) by inf.rl.ac.uk (8.11.6+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id h6NHl4D29656 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:47:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04027 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:58:16 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3F1ECC69.7090206@rl.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:56:57 +0100 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: WG5 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2891) New papers References: <200307231652.h6NGq3i1013869@dkuug.dk> <200307231723.h6NHNAdV014031@dkuug.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Richard Maine wrote: > John Reid writes: > > > Glossary. Why have all the italics been removed? I suggest: > > > > 427:6. Add 'Where the definition uses a term that is itself defined > > in this glossary, the first occurrence of the term in that definition > > is printed in italics.' [F95 words] > > > > Glossary: restore the italics. [Makes it clearer.] > > I strongly object to this for multiple reasons. Note that the italics > were removed by explicit J3 vote quite some time back. [Stuff omitted.] OK I will remove this suggestion from N1546. I noticed this only recently and it came to me as a surprise. The italics were very important when the glossary was first constructed (8x days), when terms were not being used consistently. Cheers, John.