hi Robert
Sorry, I was ambiguous.
Insofar as standard names follow the guidelines, so the construction of definitions tries to use the same phrases etc that underlied the existing definitions as they are tied to the constructs in the guidelines.
So, I misused the word formalisation in that sentence. sorry.
Bryan
On Monday 03 November 2008 15:20:19 Robert Muetzelfeldt wrote:
> Bryan,
> > a) formalising the construction of standard names (this is not a big step, I believe Alison does a fair bit of this anyway, but what folk probably don't realise is that having done that, a fair bit of the definition is formalised too).
> Are Alison's rules for formalising the construction of names
> available? I was working purely from the current Guidelines, and, as I
> mentioned, I could get only some small proportion of the Standard Names
> to parse using a grammar based on them. If there is a more extensive
> set of rules for constructting names, I'd be happy to try extending my
> grammar to include these.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
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