- From: Patrick Ion <ion@ams.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:49:44 -0400
- To: www-math@w3.org
On 7/3/14 9:31 AM, David Carlisle wrote: > On 03/07/2014 13:49, Patrick Ion wrote: >> I would urge you to change the "nameless" <latex> entries to a >> 'set="latex-historical">' at least so as not to lose the record of >> where people may have got their authoritative info > > > yes but then I should fix them to be right (not with obvious typos > such as > Frédéric reported:-) > > Ok will do something like that... > > David The trouble is that, in some sense, it's useful to know what the long persistent typo was---at least sometimes. Essentially that's why I'm advocating keeping the historical, and maybe superseded, information about, but clearly labelled. The correction presumably follows implicitly if one uses a good 'current' set as basis in an application. That's what 'good current' is supposed to mean and a motivation for developers keeping up-to-date. Patrick P.S. You may recollect that it was clear that the early SGML names from a report by American publishers, that went on into ISO12083, could be seen to be lifted without attribution from casual advertising of TeX names put out by the AMS because they reproduced the typos in that list.
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