RE: GL 3.1 L3 SC4 (Section titles)

Hello everyone, (warning, I'm back!)

John wrote:

> Loretta writes:
> 
> <q>I am also working on the guide doc for GL 2.4 L2 SC3, 
> "Delivery units have descriptive titles". </q>
> 
> Thanks for putting these two SC next to each other, Loretta. 
> My suggestion was to change GL 3.1 L3 SC4 to read:
> 
> <proposed>
> Titles and headings are descriptive.
> </proposed>
> 
> I was thinking that this wording would apply to both delivery 
> unit titles and section headings.
> 
> But now I see a possible redundancy, since GL 2.4 L2 SC3 
> requires descriptive titles for delivery units.
> 
> To resolve this, I propose:
> 1. Change GL 2.4 L2 SC3 using the wording proposed above:
> <newProposalForGL2.4L2SC3>
> Titles and headings are descriptive.
> </newProposalForGL2.4L2SC3>
> 
> And 2:
> <deleteGL3.1L3SC4>
> Section titles are descriptive.
> </deleteGL3.1L3SC4>
> 

There is a difference in the way this plays out however. "Delivery units
have descriptive titles" requires you to make sure that delivery units have
titles AND that these titles are descriptive. John's proposal only requires
the latter and no longer requires that a delivery unit has a title. *If* you
have a title, it must be descriptive. 

I think that we should require that delivery units have a title and that
titles are descriptive. 

Proposal:
GL 2.4 L2: 
Delivery units have titles
GL 2.4 L3:
Titles and headings are descriptive.

I do not think 'headings' is too HTML specific, because the concept makes
sense in all text documents. If it's not a text document, you meet the
second requirement by default.

To not confuse the issue I kept the levels as they were although personally
I would prefer 'titles and headings are descriptive' at level 2 because
there's no use having them if they're not descriptive. 

Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Enschede, the Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
WWW: http://www.heritas.nl

Received on Monday, 10 October 2005 19:12:22 UTC