From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Thu Sep 4 20:24:00 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h84IO0af018674 for sc22wg5-domo; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:24:00 +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 brmea-mail-3.sun.com (brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM [192.18.98.34]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h84INrCp018669 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:23:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Keith.Bierman@Sun.COM) Received: from esunmail ([129.147.156.34]) by brmea-mail-3.sun.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h84INxt6002927 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:23:59 -0600 (MDT) Received: from xpa-fe2 (esunmail [129.147.156.34]) by edgemail1.Central.Sun.COM (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKP0043ECFYX6@edgemail1.Central.Sun.COM> for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:23:59 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sun.com ([129.146.10.23]) by mail.sun.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTPSA id <0HKP007AHCFW1D@mail.sun.net> for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:23:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:23:57 -0700 From: keith bierman Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2968) paragraph numbering In-reply-to: <200309041745.h84HjDmc018262@dkuug.dk> Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Reply-to: Keith.Bierman@Sun.COM Message-id: <3F57833D.4040503@sun.com> Organization: SunMicrosystems Laboratories MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en,pdf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 References: <200309041659.h84Gx2Yp017775@dkuug.dk> <200309041745.h84HjDmc018262@dkuug.dk> Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Bill Long wrote: > >> There has been some discussion (partly off-list) about the possibility >> of putting paragraph numbers in the FCD (and the published standard). >> Apparently we cannot put line numbers in the actual standard, but >> paragraph numbers are acceptable. (We knew before that line >> numbers were at best questionable, so the 007 is done in a way >> that makes it trivial to turn them all off). > For whatever it's worth (and that's not much), my thoughts. I remain disappointed that ISO can't permit the obviously most useful thing, line numbers. If the committee would use only paragraph numbering, I could see how it could be helpful (and as Richard noted, it might well survive draft/interpretation processing so that papers might not be as closely tied to a single draft). if the committee is going to wind up using line numbers anyway, and the paragraph numbers are just extra work ... the utility would seem somewhat limited. -- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| Sun Microsystems Laboratories | kbierman@acm.org 15 Network Circle UMPK 15-224 | 650-352-4432 voice+fax Menlo Park, California 94025 | sun internal 68207 Copyright 2003