Recap of Monday's Call - Bliss Symbolics & data-symbol attribute

Hello EA and Russell,

Thank you for meeting with Lisa and I today. Enclosed please find my notes
from our call - please feel to expand, contradict or confirm as required.

The first issue discussed was related to the fact that Bliss has the notion
of 'compound ideas', where authors can concatenate multiple numbers to
express a unique idea and symbol. While the example numbers bellow are
inaccurate, the current pattern we are proposing is similar to this:

<span symbol="4 8 3">cup of tea</span> = [symbol for 'cup'] [symbol for
'of'] [symbol for 'tea']


...which would resolve to 3 separate symbols, as noted above.

However, Bliss and a few other symbol sets, also support compound ideas,
and so for example, Bliss (may) have a unique symbol for "cup of tea",
which is the concatenation of those numbers. For that reason, we will need
a 'joiner' of sorts - an annotated way of creating those compound ideas.

We could use something similar to:

<span symbol="4+8+3">cup of tea</span>  = [symbol for cup+of+tea] (="cup of
tea")

...which is using the "+" (plus symbol) to join / concatenate the numbers
or, if using the plus symbol is not available to us, perhaps "commas"
instead:

<span symbol="4,8,3">cup of tea</span>  = [symbol for cup+of+tea] (="cup of
tea")

As an open question at this time is whether we can use the "+" (plus
symbol) as part of the value string, or whether we are restricted by other
HTML authoring rules to using the comma, but there appears general
agreement that we need to be able to declare both space separated and
concatenated number values.

JF to do some research and report back.

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The other topic / concern discussed relates to grammar rules.

While we recognized the need for potentially conveying specialized grammar
rules as well, at this time we're focusing on same-language conversion (as
opposed to international language conversion, for example German to
English). Questions include: How to specify? Where to specify? What to
specify?

At this time it is implied that we will be governed by existing Grammar
rules inherent to Bliss' symbol set, and leave other
internationalization aspects of Bliss to those experts outside of our
technical work. None-the-less, Russell will do some quick investigation
about grammar rules declaration: we discussed Schema.Org notation (which is
geared to the document level) as a potential way forward.

However it was felt that while important, we can work on this in more
detail in subsequent iterations, that for now using the Bliss Grammar rules
is sufficient and appropriate for our first go around.

JF
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