Re: [abcusers] Current specification - Deathlike appearance.

2004-04-22 Thread David Webber
From: "Neil Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In 2.0, there is a %% directive in which the version is specified. > I would expect that this would be mandatory if the file is written > using 2.0 standard or later, otherwise > there wouldn't be much point in having it. Ok that helps. But it still s

Re: [abcusers] Current specification - Deathlike appearance.

2004-04-22 Thread Neil Jennings
At 06:10 PM 4/22/04, you wrote: 2. if I've got this right, it would seem to be like shooting oneself in the foot to approve (eg) !pp! now as a dynamic (for 1.7.6) only to deprecate it in v2 and say one must use +pp+, and then use ! as a line break, especially as there is nothing in the file (or

Re: [abcusers] Current specification - Deathlike appearance.

2004-04-22 Thread David Webber
From: "Christian M. Cepel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *There has been a draft for a revised standard (with version number > 1.7.6 and dated 08/05/00), but it never acquired an "official" status. > * > I know there is lots of debate regarding 1.7.6 and 2.0, but I fail to > understand why 1.7.6 cannot b

Re: [abcusers] Current specification - Deathlike appearance.

2004-04-22 Thread Christian M. Cepel
A couple of revisions > I believe, it also looks bad, when Chris' website is the most linked > to > 'introduction to the ABC concept' and the last official standard was > approved of 'umpteen odd' years ago. It looks like little official > work has been done on ABC and like so many things you ma

Re: [abcusers] Current specification - Deathlike appearance.

2004-04-22 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Quote from that website... *There has been a draft for a revised standard (with version number 1.7.6 and dated 08/05/00), but it never acquired an "official" status. * I know there is lots of debate regarding 1.7.6 and 2.0, but I fail to understand why 1.7.6 cannot be given "official" status for