[LSC] Updated CATEGORY and KEYWORD specs

[Travis Cobbs]

Is the inability to embed style information the reason that the category
list went from multi-column to single-column?

Minor grammar problems:
The list of words and phrases following the !KEYWORDS meta-statement are
delimited by commas.

The phrase "are delimited" above should be "is delimited".

Words and terms from the part name are not allowed, neither is the part
number.

The comma before neither should be a semicolon, since this is two separate
complete sentences.  Having said that, the current phrasing is awkward, but
I'm at a loss for suggesting a better phrasing.

There final sentence of the descriptive text is missing its period.


I think we should add alternate spellings for terms to the list at the end
of the last paragraph (for example, having "tire" as a keyword for parts
that are tyres).  Or is this discouraged/forbidden?  If so, do we know why,
and is it open for argument?

The descriptive text for keywords states that lines should be limited to 80
characters, but all four keywords lines in the final example are more than
80 characters (the shortest is 82, which would have still been 81 prior to
the addition of the !).

--Travis


On 1/1/07, William Howard <william at howard-family.fsworld.co.uk> wrote:

>

> Re-uploaded this (took far longer than expected to locate the original -

> real work kept getting in the way!)

>

> Anyway, looks like my upload ability for embedded styles is still

> broken/disabled

>

> :-(

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: lsc-bounces at ldraw.org [mailto:lsc-bounces at ldraw.org] On Behalf Of

> William Howard

> Sent: 09 November 2006 07:37

> To: 'LDraw Standards Committee'; parts at ldraw.org

> Subject: RE: [LSC] Updated CATEGORY and KEYWORD specs

>

>

> I've updated this extension

>

> the new version is here

> http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4

> 08

>

> (while Willy's previous version can still be found here

> http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3

> 40)

>

> I have no idea why PostNuke has corrupted the table of categories

> (probably the same reason it ate the main specifications page earlier -

> it appears to have removed all embedded styles!)

>

> I have two issues with the extension as it stands

>

> 1) Does the LSC really want to be responsible for defining new

> categories? I see this as the domain of the PT Admins.  I think the LSC

> should define the extension but leave the actual list of categories to

> the admins (after all we don't allocate x3DN numbers of pattern

> suffixes)

>

> 2) There was a bit in the !KEYWORDS section about keywords just being

> space delimited (as well as comma-space delimited), but then what does

> "word1, word2 word3, word 4" mean? Is it three or four terms?  If it's

> three terms (as intended), keywords MUST be comma delimited.

>

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