On May 20, 2005, at 8:26 PM, Roger B. wrote:
change from a unicode combined char to single + combining
diacritic,
No.
change in paragraph 27 of an article that doesn't show up in a
summaries-only feed,
No.
Dave: In my case, and seemingly in the case of most of the tools
surveyed, both of those would get a "yes".
Existence proof, if any were needed, that the notion that there is
such a thing as an "objective change" is just silly. Anybody who has
worked with the deployment of more than two professional publishing
systems knows full well that there is very little agreement on what
constitutes a change. Attempting to specify a protocol element to
capture a mythological quantity strikes me as bad design. -Tim
