Glen,
Three examples are the following from XBD6 draft 1:
Page 10, L239-243:
2.37 Brackets
The characters [ (left-bracket) and ] (right-bracket), also
known as square brackets. When used in the phrase ``enclosed
in (square) brackets'' the symbol [ immediately precedes the
object to be enclosed, and ] immediately follows it. When
describing these characters in the portable character set, the
names <left-square-bracket> adn <right-square-bracket> are
used.
Page 38, L951-953:
2.204 Period
The character (.). The term period is contrasted with dot,
which is used to describe a specific directory entry.
and Page 107, L3399:
ELLIPSIS The string ...
I would prefer to see these written as they were described in
POSIX.2 as follows:
2.37 Brackets
The characters ``['' (left-bracket) and ``]'' (right-bracket),
also known as square brackets. When used in the phrase
``enclosed in (square) brackets'' the symbol ``['' immediately
precedes the object to be enclosed, and ``]'' immediately
follows it. When describing these characters in the portable
character set, the names <left-square-bracket> adn
<right-square-bracket> are used.
2.204 Period
The character '.'. The term period is contrasted with dot,
which is used to describe a specific directory entry.
ELLIPSIS The string "...".
Thanks,
Don
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>Although I tend to agree with Don, I'm not sure everyone I know exactly what
>we're talking about here. Could someone volunteer an example?
> /glen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Cragun [mailto:yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: July 01, 1999 1:26 PM
>To: yyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: A note from our Editors (was Bug in XBD)
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>...
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>>
>>3. All characters in XSH and XBD were changed to no quotes. The use of
>>quotes was more confusing than not having them, since sometimes the quotes
>>are meaningful. However, this has not yet been done in XCU. During the
>>final stages of the last version, we were asked to add quotes to all
>>characters in XCU. However, this could never have been done thoroughly on
>>an automatic basis (and as it turns out was very badly done) because the
>>files were in such a messy state. We have therefore got halfway through
>>sorting out this problem during my major recode of XCU. Reversing this
>>decision is possible, but we would advise against it.
>
>I disagree with the decision to remove quotes. (But I know I have lost
>this battle before.) In many cases, there is no confusion and either
>form is readable. In other cases, not having quotes makes the meaning
>ambiguous (Does an ellipsis contain two or three periods? [See
>XBD6/d1, P107, L3399.]) or easy to misinterpret (I can't find it now,
>but when I was reading through the draft there was one paragraph I had
>to read four times to figure out which parentheses were presenting
>parenthetical elements and which were literal characters.). I have not
>seen any cases where having quotes makes the meaning ambiguous.
>
>>
>>The Austin Group Editors
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