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Re: What are the semantics of list number continuation?
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: What are the semantics of list number continuation?
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:45:51 -0500
- References: <200002021326.FAA25030@bolt.sonic.net>
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/ Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> was heard to say:
| Too much caffeine?
Huh!?
| and "but is not an ancestor" fails when you have a lists 3
| deep within a top-level list that has a preceding sublist 2 deep:
[renumbering]
| A
| B
| A'
| B'
| C
| A''
I meant for but-not-an-ancestor to cover the following case:
B' can continue B, but not A'. Likewise, C can continue B but
not B' or A'. A'' continues C (IMHO).
| I agree we didn't define the semantics as tightly in prose
| as we might, but I'm hard pressed to see what reasonable
| alternative there is to the straightforward interpretation.
Considering that we seem to have completely different notions of
what the straightforward interpretation is (or we're utterly
failing to communicate), I can't agree.
Cheers,
norm
--
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