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Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-16 13:46:43

Yeah, that's probably a safer approach. One could of course
imagine some kind of hybrid and parsing in the form of *very*
or /very/ explicit terms. Maybe this is orthogonal to the
other discussion we are having...

Ole


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On Wed, 16 May 2012, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

On 5/16/12 12:26 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

And of course if we had a slightly richer publication format we could 
use, oh, say, underline, bold, italics and maybe even a special font 
for normative terms, but I guess I am dreaming decades ahead...

Although I too dream the impossible dream, I would prefer not to trust
in formatting to enforce the semantic distinction in this instance.

Peter