Re: Question on title and explanation of shuffles -- letter/alphabet
Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> -<listitem><para>The strings are compared from the head to the tail.</para></listitem>
>> -<listitem><para>Alphabets are larger than numbers.</para></listitem>
>> -<listitem><para>Numbers are compared as the integer.</para></listitem>
>> -<listitem><para>Alphabets are compared in the ASCII code order.</para></listitem>
>> -<listitem><para>There are some special rules for periods (<literal>.</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>) and tildes (<literal>~</literal>) as the followings.</para>
>> +<listitem><para>Strings are compared from the head to the tail.</para></listitem>
>> +<listitem><para>Letters are larger than digits.</para></listitem>
>> +<listitem><para>Numbers are compared as integers.</para></listitem>
>> +<listitem><para>Letters are compared in ASCII code order.</para></listitem>
>> +<listitem><para>There are special rules for period
>> +(<literal>.</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>), and tilde
>> +(<literal>~</literal>) characters, as follows.</para>
>
> I did not realize you changed from /Alphabets/ to /Letters/.
> (In Japanese translation, "English letters" will be used here.)
>
> This is good since we have "lower case letters" elsewhere.
>
> I used "alphabet" since we had alphanumerics elsewhere. I was not sure letters
> include period etc. I also thought, alphabets usualy are exclusive to [a-ZA-Z].
"Alphabets" never means individual characters (or at least, not in
native-speaker English). "ABC...Z" and "АБВ...Я" are alphabets; "A"
is a letter.
Punctuation marks don't count as letters or as alphanumerics, but
readers unfamiliar with the term "alphanumeric" might not realise this.
> I am wondering if I should make this tutorial easier and consistent by removing
> 2 usages of "alphanumerics" along with your proposed change.
>
> |- at least two characters long, must start with an alphanumeric character, and
> |+ at least two characters long, must start with an letter or number character, and
That's clearer, but there's no need for "character" (also, s/an/a/):
at least two characters long, must start with a letter or number, and
>
> |- alphanumerics (<literal>0-9A-Za-z</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>),
> |+ letters (<literal>A-Za-z</literal>), numbers (<literal>0-9</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>),
Yes, that's okay.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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