- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:10:42 -0500
- To: Sven.Hartrumpf@fernuni-hagen.de
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Sven-- Thanks again for your comments. Here is a summary of the changes I propose to make to the Primer in response to your comments: > made affect -> > may affect The text you want corrected is in boilerplate that was used in all the last call RDF documents, not just the Primer. The text is only applicable to these last call documents, and hence will not appear in the next published version of the Primer (or the other documents). Hence I propose to leave this text alone for now, since it will get fixed "automatically" when the next versions are published. > property interpret -> > properly interpret As I noted earlier, this change had been made in the 10 October Last Call Primer version. > may not used -> > may not be used This change will be made as you suggest. > as normatively defined in -> > are normatively defined in I propose to change "and certain other concepts to be described later, as normatively defined in" to "and certain other concepts to be described later. These things are normatively defined in" > provides no additional meaning that such a program can directly use -> > ? the object referred to by "such a program" is unclear and very remote I propose to change "provides no additional meaning that such a program can directly use" to "provides no additional meaning that an arbitrary RDF application can directly use" referring to "an arbitrary RDF application" which has been mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs. > month, day, and year -> > (illogical order; I know: some don't like logic :-) ) As I noted earlier, I don't propose to change this order; this conforms to American usage, and particularly to the order of the components of the exterms:creation-date property in a previous example, in which the components are written in month, day, and year order ("August 16, 1999"). > later in this section). -> > later in this section.) > in explaining the example). -> > in explaining the example.) In response to these last two suggestions (and our subsequent discussion) what I propose to do is this: Where the parenthetical material is subordinate to another sentence (even when the parenthetical material has the form of a complete sentence), I'm going to leave it alone. This includes the two cases you've cited above. Where the parenthetical material is a stand-alone sentence, with the first word capitalized, as in the case you cited of "(Line numbers are added to help in explaining the example)." I'll move the closing period inside the parentheses (there are several places where this change would be made). Please reply cc-ing www-rdf-comments indicating whether these changes are acceptable. Thanks again. --Frank
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