Either spelling is fine with me. I just need the structure! :-)

I concur that we should probably use the most familiar spelling for the element name.

Best regards,

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Grosso, Paul wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgro...@ptc.com] Sent: Monday, 2007 April 23 9:48 To: DocBook Technical Committee Subject: [docbook-tc] acknowledgements element in 5.0

-----Original Message----- From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bo...@sagehill.net] Sent: Monday, 2007 April 23 1:49 To: DocBook Technical Committee Cc: docb...@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 25 April 2007

a. Norm to add acknowledgements element to 5.0.

There may be an issue regarding "acknowledgement" versus "acknowledgment". I realize that the online docbook documentation at http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html /docbook.h tml uses the former, and I personally prefer the former, since one would ordinarily think the g is hard in the latter.

However, I feel obliged to point out that it appears to be a substantial majority of uses prefer the former spelling. In

Sigh, typo, I meant prefer the latter (2e) spelling.

paul

fact, if you look up "acknowledgement" at http://www.m-w.com/ you get sent to the entry for "acknowledgment" (where it lists "acknowledgement" as a variant) and a search of the online Chicago Manual of Style at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ shows only the "acknowledgment" spelling.

We may find that most users will expect the 2e (instead of 3e) spelling. Of course, use of a smart editor can obviate this issue, but those entering DocBook via Notepad might be surprised.

paul

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