documenting subtraction
Frank H. Ellenberger
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 11:11:18 EST 2016
Hi Chris,
can you document your research results in
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Text_conventions
?
The section <!-- HTML codes unknown to xmllint and xml2po: --> in our
main documents reminds me that we should check, if the new codes are
known to all used tools. Outlook seems to have similar problems ;-)
Regards
Frank
Am 27.11.2016 um 00:14 schrieb Chris Good:
> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us]
> Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2016 2:55 PM
> To: Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> Cc: GnuCash Developers <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: documenting subtraction
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> On Nov 25, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au <mailto:chris.good at ozemail.com.au> > wrote:
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> Hi John,
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> The punctuation guide [1] you kindly pointed me too recently does not mention using hyphens in mathematical formulas AFAICS.
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> In the guide selling section is uses:
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> GROSS_SALE-TOTALBUY-COMMISSION
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> and I would like to change that to
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> GROSS_SALE - TOTALBUY – COMMISSION (spaces around hyphen)
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> OK?
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> [1] http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/about-this-guide.html
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> Chris,
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> Yeah, punctuation generally means "natural language" rather than "math" (or "maths" if you prefer). I do think it's normal in typesetting formulae to have spaces around operators and I agree that it makes the formula more readable in this case.
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> BUT don't use the text you used here: There's an en-dash (U+2013) between TOTALBUY and COMMISSION.
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> As I've told you before, the typographically correct symbol to use is − (U+2212, −)) but the ASCII hyphen-minus - (U+002d) that you used between GROSS_SALE and TOTALBUY is commonly used and is fine. Whichever you use should be the same at least on the whole page.
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> Regards,
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> John Ralls
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> John,
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> Darn, I fell afoul of Outlook autocorrect and autoformat options again. I’m sure I had already fixed those…
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> Why it changed one but not the other I’ve got no idea.
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> I’ve done a little searching on the internet - very interesting.
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> I’ll change these uses to −.
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> Thanks,
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> Chris Good
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