Re: A note on "non" and "non-"

On 22 Apr 2009, at 13:13, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>> Oh, I see. This text does not appear in the Wiki and has indeed been
>> added when document snapshots were generated. Not much I can do
>> there. Thanks for this observation -- we'll keep this in mind during
>> the next publication round.
>
> Yes, that's due to me.  Pubrules uses the hyphen [1], and I suspect  
> the
> pubrules checker requires it.
>
> I've forwarded your argument against it to the appropriate W3C staff
> person, and I'll report back on the answer.

We clearly need a longer discussion on this...perhaps some telecon  
time...or even a special F2F[1]!!!!

Cheers,
Bijan.

[1] or maybe a F-2-F ;)

P.S. For a famous attack on the hyphen see: http://www-cs- 
faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html ... I always forget that  
software used to be hypenated!