Re: Editorial comment - MUST, SHOULD, etc

Here's the (closed :( ) respec issue:
https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/1109
Which suggests raising it here: https://github.com/w3c/tr-design/issues

Happy to back you up on it! :)

Rob

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:18 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> It sounds like the respec stylesheets need to be corrected.
>
> If the WebSub spec is choosing to use respec, then I think the Social Web
> group bears some responsibility for ensuring that the respec stylesheets
> are corrected so that they do not misleadingly display "MUST" as "must".
>
> Or is this display of "MUST" as "must" a new W3C policy?   If so, where
> should I lodge my request to get it changed?
>
> thanks,
> David Booth
>
> On 04/13/2017 05:02 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> Lowercase is the new uppercase, apparently.  The relatively recently
>> completed annotation specifications are all lowercase too:
>>     https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
>> Along with any spec that uses the current respec stylesheets.
>>
>> "Progress"
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 1:45 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org
>> <mailto:david@dbooth.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     The WebSub spec looks quite interesting!
>>
>>     However, as a small editorial matter, it is disconcerting to see
>>     that the RFC 2119 words MUST, SHOULD, etc. are being displayed in
>>     the document in lower case.  This is misleading, because in fact
>>     they are upper case -- as they should be, to stand out -- if I view
>>     the source HTML or if I copy and paste them.  Apparently the style
>>     sheet is doing some kind of weird gratuitous conversion to lower
>>     case, in displaying them.
>>
>>     Please correct the style sheet to not change the case of these RFC
>>     2119 words, so that they are consistently used, displayed and
>>     copy-and-pasted IN UPPER CASE.
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>     David Booth
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rob Sanderson
>> Semantic Architect
>> The Getty Trust
>> Los Angeles, CA 90049
>>
>


-- 
Rob Sanderson
Semantic Architect
The Getty Trust
Los Angeles, CA 90049