[tei-council] pdf version of guidelines, fonts

Conal Tuohy conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz
Sun Dec 9 22:02:25 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 02:24 +0000, Lou's Laptop wrote:
> I have come across only the term "mantissa" , rather than "significand" 
> used here as alternatives. Is that a British preference or am I just out 
> of date? And I still think tis description is far too detailed and 
> technical!

Apparently the use of "mantissa" for the fractional part of a logarithm
goes back for centuries. "Significand" is a (poorly-coined) 20C
neologism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand#Use_of_.22mantissa.22

> > es, please, that would be lovely. But start with the most recent
> > version, as I checked in an improvement just a few minutes ago. (Most
> > recent can be found at
> > http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/data.numeric.xml?view=markup
> > or
> > http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/data.numeric.xml
> > for XML straight up.)

There's a typo there, BTW (<sic>varient</sic>):
http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/data.numeric.xml?view=markup#l_30
-- 
Conal Tuohy
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
www.nzetc.org



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