From: Bruce D'A. <bd...@gm...> - 2008-08-19 14:37:32
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Simon Kornblith <si...@si...> wrote: > There are two outstanding issues with periods that I think should be > fairly easy to resolve. > > The first surrounds term abbreviations that include periods: > > On Jul 6, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Dan Stillman wrote: > >> To be properly localized, terms in the locales.xml files need to >> include >> all periods, since certain abbreviations may or may not require >> trailing >> periods depending on the language used. An example would be the short >> version of March, which is "Mar." in English but, according to the >> current version of locales-de-DE.xml, "März" in German (which is the >> same as the long form). > > The second surrounds journal abbreviations: > > On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Simon Kornblith wrote: > >> It's recently been brought to my attention that some journals use >> abbreviations with periods ("Exp. Brain Res.") while others omit the >> periods ("Exp Brain Res") > > It seems to me that both of these issues could be solved by allowing a > strip-period (or strip-periods) attribute on all <text> elements, as > Dan suggested, and removing the include-period attribute. But don't each of these cases point to *term* specific exceptions, so that any particular solution must be at that level (rather than text)? E,g. ... <term name="month-05" form="short" include-period="false">Mai</term> ...? Hmm ... actually, that doesn't solve your second case, But am I right on the first? Bruce PS - Simon, comment on David's recent post? |