Re: [Docutils-users] Scientific article example

[Paul T. <pau...@gm...>]

On 10/17/11 5:36 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 4:46 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
>> I don't know why you insist on being so pedantic
> Love of language.
>
> If you want the closest there is to a standard,
> look at rfc 4180.
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#page-2 (point 4)
>
> CSV = **comma** separated values, no matter what
> various tools will parse.
>
>

Then you would know that language takes meaning in the way it is used. 
In this case, everyone understands that CSV means a file separated by 
delimeters chosen by the user.

I mean, if you go to the Python page I liked to, the very first example 
given for the CSV reader is a *space delimited* file. OpenOffice and 
Word also consider space delimited files to be CSV. So no, CSV does not 
mean "comma" separated. So apparently everyone in the world has CSV 
wrong, except Alan? Is that really how you think language is used?

Paul