- From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 16:37:20 +0000
- To: public-ixml@w3.org
On 03/12/2025 16:08, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote: > Hello again, > I thought I’d see if I could summarize the proposals that I’ve seen > so far on this thread. Here’s my list (I’ve used 3 and 5 as stand- > ins for any arbitrary number): > > |---+-------------+-----------------+----------------------| > | 0 | a, b*, c | a, b*, c, | a, b ** ",", c | > |---+-------------+-----------------+----------------------| > | 1 | a, b<3>, c | a, b<3,5>, c | a, b <<3,5>> ",", c | > | 2 | a, b#3,c | a, b#3,5, c | a, b ##3,5 ",", c | > | 3 | a, b&(3), c | a, b&(3,5), c | a, b &&(3,5) ",", c | > | 4 | a, b 3 *, c | a, b 3 * 5, c | a, b 3 ** 5 ",", c | > | 5 | a, b x 3, c | a, b x (3,5), c | a, b xx (3,5) ",", c | > |---+-------------+-----------------+----------------------| Thank you, that's very clear. My vote would go for #1, purely on the basis that I think it's A Good Idea™ to delimit the counter fore and aft without a herald. > I think the proposals in rows 4 and 5 are impractical. I think > they’re too confusing for users and they’re also too confusing for > the grammar. Using a delimiter that might be a name character would > be much harder to make work unambiguously in the iXML grammar for > iXML. Those of us used to LaTeX would of course be happy with a,*3b,c a,*3-5b,c and a,**3-5b,c 😱 Peter
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