Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /3

2016-04-05 Thread Helen Borrie
Hello Aage, Friday, April 1, 2016, 10:28:51 AM, you wrote: > p.97 > Table 5.8. ALTER TABLE Statement Parameters > The pagebreak reveal an akward split between the parameter > 'collation" and its description. > This may be a pdf artifact, but I'm using "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, > 2015 Release

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2

2016-03-28 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Aage Johansen wrote: > First, thanks to Paul for checking my suggestions. > Actually, I may have misremembered: I thought there might be pitfalls > regarding the sign of the result. There are. Or rather, there is one: 0x8000 - 0x map to negative INTEGER values, whereas 0x08000 -

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hi Helen, > Another thing we seem to have missed by the same method (!) was binary > strings in hex format. > > Unless you have feelings against it, I should just pick up the > relevant source from LangUpdate25, slot it into the appropriate > places and cross-ref where needed. Yes, please use

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hi Helen, > > p.51 (end of first paragraph): > > A CONTAINING search is not case-sensitive. > > > Maybe a comment/warning on accent-sensitivity? > > I think you might be the first person involved with this text who has > day-to-day experience with data in a language with accented > characters.

[Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2b

2016-03-20 Thread Aage Johansen
A few more: p.53 (top) [ ] ( ) | ^ - + * % _ ? { No "}" (terminating brace) ? [:ALPHA:]: Latin letters a..z and A..z. Should be: a..z and A..Z ? p.57 Existential Predicates ... Existential

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions

2016-03-11 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2016-03-10 22:00, Aage Johansen wrote: > I may be way too late, or others may have noted > these already. This is a few suggestions that I collected in > February: > > == > Document version: 0.901 > > > > P.13Integer Data Types >

[Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions

2016-03-10 Thread Aage Johansen
I may be way too late, or others may have noted these already. This is a few suggestions that I collected in February: == Document version: 0.901 P.13Integer Data Types BIGINT is defined as 64-bit integer, INTEGER is defined as