From derek@knosof.co.uk Wed Feb 2 19:48:09 2000 Received: from mail1-gui.server.ntli.net (mail1-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.222.13]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA42530 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:48:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from derek@knosof.co.uk) Received: from thingamejig ([212.250.139.20]) by mail1-gui.server.ntli.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-33929U70000L2S50) with ESMTP id AAA24161 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:30:15 +0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000202183927.0097a990@pop3.demon.co.uk> X-Sender: knosof@pop3.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:42:20 +0000 To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk From: Derek M Jones Subject: Re: (SC22WG15.1456) Page numbers in Cross References In-Reply-To: <200002021819.TAA42454@dkuug.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Nick, >For some time now we have been discussing the pros and cons of having page >numbers in cross references. For example, (See 6.2.3.4.5.1, page 856). While >most people believe that such page numbers are useful and beneficial to end >user, there is at present an explicit ISO rule forbidding such. > >The ISO rule is to avoid referring to page numbers; this is in fact >stated clearly in part 3 of the ISO/IEC Directives: "References shall >be made in the forms indicated in 6.6.6.2 to 6.6.6.5 and shall not be >made to page numbers" (last paragraph of 6.6.6.1). Page numbers can be more helpful. But what about paragraph numbers. Now that ISO permits these, they are in the new C standard, they could help narrow down the search even more. derek -- Derek M Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:derek@knosof.co.uk Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk