On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:27 AM, Rainer Heilke wrote:
Rainer, I don't have the document in front of me, so I'm responding from my memory of the document > Page 229: C shell is out of order. Although many indexes would > place this after degrees Celcius, for consistency in this document, > it should be placed before "currently", I suspect. (I think there > are two standards for "alphabetical order" in computer documents; > some use a space as being before "a", while some consider the > letter after the space as definitive, with the space being ignored.) Our standard is to treat spaces as sorting before "a." So, "C shell" would sort *before* "Celsius" and "currently." We do not consider case when sorting indexes. > Page 228: There are, I would argue, legitimate uses of -enabled. > For example: > "Sun SPOTs are JAVA-enabled devices that can be used to..." In > this type of context, the alternatives don't really work. I don't recall the specific section here, but the problem with your example is that it is inappropriate to add a suffix to a trademarked term. It would be OK to say "Java enabled," but not with the hypen since Java is a TM. Steven Cogorno Sun Microsystems
