--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] [pd REFERENCE] format [was: Re: Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors] To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "Frank Barknecht" fbar@footils.org, pd-list@iem.at, "João Pais" jmmmpais@googlemail.com Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 11:39 PM On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca
wrote:
I don't know, but if a template doesn't allow to
say
something complex like «Pierre wrote the
reference section,
Jean wrote the theoretical background section,
Jacques
provided the examples» then that template should
be just
shot dead.
You have included commas in your example. But I
thought you were
arguing that commas will cause problems down the
line.
If you are making a tag system and are going to search by full tagnames, than each tag has better be a single symbol and each request better not contain commas. But there are things for which you'd search by text content, and people are using commas all over english text, so naturally, if the author field needs to be in plain english, it will need to be searched like plain english is to be searched.
I assume your talking about the HELP_PATCH_AUTHOR field, and not AUTHOR. (But maybe there are better names for these.)
I'm supposing that a tag system is something in which a tag is atomic (you don't search for substrings of tags when you search by tag) and in which tags are considered more special than the rest of the text, because else why bother calling it a tag system and why bother making it any different from a plain text search. furthermore, i suppose that there is an aim of semantic unambiguïty, that is, there is some kind of standard on tags such that either "fm" or "frequency_modulation" is used but not both because all synonymous words for 1 thing are represented by 1 tag.
I don't understand your last point, as far as parsing in Pd is concerned. If you have the tag "frequency_modulation," how is it that the user can search for "fm" and get appropriate results?
-Jonathan
_____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801