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)
>
>
By the way, from the top of your own link:

"This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not 
specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is 
unlimited."

If you export from Excel or OpenOffice to a CSV format, you are allowed 
to use any delimeter. You can
choose the "|" character or "a" character. And when you open those same 
files, lo and behold!--they appear exactly as you exported them. You 
want to call space delimited files "SSV." So know what do we call files 
delimited by "|" or "a"--BSV (Bar Separated Values) and ASV (A Separated 
Values)?  How silly do we want to be?

And as a linguistic exercise, what do you think of when you hear the 
word "band aid?" What do we mean by the word "hound." (Hint: what is 
linguistic narrowing?)

Paul