--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] [pd REFERENCE] format [was: Re: Pd META: Author/Help Patch > Authors] > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Frank Barknecht" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "João Pais" > <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 11:39 PM > On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Jonathan Wilkes > wrote: > > --- On Sat, 9/5/09, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I don't know, but if a template doesn't allow to > say > >> something complex like «Pierre wrote the > reference section, > >> Jean wrote the theoretical background section, > Jacques > >> provided the examples» then that template should > be just > >> shot dead. > > You have included commas in your example. But I > thought you were > > arguing that commas will cause problems down the > line. > > If you are making a tag system and are going to search by > full tagnames, than each tag has better be a single symbol > and each request better not contain commas. But there are > things for which you'd search by text content, and people > are using commas all over english text, so naturally, if the > author field needs to be in plain english, it will need to > be searched like plain english is to be searched. I assume your talking about the HELP_PATCH_AUTHOR field, and not AUTHOR. (But maybe there are better names for these.) > > I'm supposing that a tag system is something in which a tag > is atomic (you don't search for substrings of tags when you > search by tag) and in which tags are considered more special > than the rest of the text, because else why bother calling > it a tag system and why bother making it any different from > a plain text search. furthermore, i suppose that there is an > aim of semantic unambiguïty, that is, there is some kind of > standard on tags such that either "fm" or > "frequency_modulation" is used but not both because all > synonymous words for 1 thing are represented by 1 tag. I don't understand your last point, as far as parsing in Pd is concerned. If you have the tag "frequency_modulation," how is it that the user can search for "fm" and get appropriate results? -Jonathan > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ > _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: > +1.514.383.3801 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
