On 5/24/07, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure that I see the problem. The clause is definitional, not
procedural. Would it help if "considered" were replaced with
"conceptually organized"?
It would help eliminate some ambiguity. I suggest something like the
following.
(3) The units of a document form an ordered tree with the order
determined as follows. Each unit has a level, which is the
number of spaces preceding the first non-space character on
the first line of the unit. The root is an empty unit with
level zero which nominally appears at the beginning of the
document. A barrier between two units is a unit appearing
between those units which has level no greater than that of
the unit appearing first. One unit is a descendant of
another unit if it appears after the latter, has strictly
greater level, and is not separated from the latter by a
barrier.
This expresses the fact that given a total order O and a function r of
O into the natural numbers, there is a natural way to partially order
the elements of O as a tree whose (gappy) grading is given by r, which
seems to be what the various versions of (d) (3) are trying to say. I
know that what I wrote is wordier than previous versions. I think it
is somewhat clearer.
I'm not certain that I've captured the exact definition intended,
since I'm not used to a ``section'' being part of a ``paragraph''.
--
C. Maud Image (Michael Slone)
I'm on vacation. Sorry about that.
-- root, in agora-discussion
