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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Hi Jerry,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I agree with you that I don't see the problem that Norbert's talking about</DIV> <DIV>in the ABNF - it looks fine to me - it certainly does NOT allow multiple</DIV> <DIV>periods in the fraction part.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I agree that the spec should NOT point at that bogus location for the</DIV> <DIV>normative ABNF.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We don't really have any firm ideas what to do with normative adjuncts</DIV> <DIV>(like ABNF or WSDL or whatever) to PWG standards-track specs.</DIV> <DIV>But they certainly do NOT belong in 'Candidates'.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cheers,</DIV> <DIV>- Ira</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High North Inc PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839 phone: +1-906-494-2434 email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: thrasher@lexmark.com [mailto:thrasher@lexmark.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:57 AM To: harryl@us.ibm.com; imcdonald@sharplabs.com Subject: Re: Possible errata in custom media size spec??? </DIV> Harry, Ira, I'm not an ABNF expert by any means but I don't see the problem in the spec. that Norbert is talking about.  It looks to me like both the short-dim and long-dim specifications are exactly the same...??? Here's the text from the MSN Specification: media-size-self-describing-name = <DIV align=center> ( class-in "_" size-name "_" short-dim "x" long-dim "in" ) | ( class-mm "_" size-name "_" short-dim "x" long-dim "mm" )</DIV>    class-in = "custom" | "na" | "asme" | "roc" | "oe"    class-mm = "custom" | "iso" | "jis" | "jpn" | "prc" | "om"    size-name = ( lowalpha | digit ) *( lowalpha | digit | "-" )    short-dim = dim    long-dim = dim    dim = integer-part [fraction-part] | "0" fraction-part    integer-part = non-zero-digit *digit    fraction-part = "." *digit non-zero-digit    lowalpha = "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i" |               "j" | "k" | "l" | "m" | "n" | "o" | "p" | "q" | "r" |               "s" | "t" | "u" | "v" | "w" | "x" | "y" | "z"    non-zero-digit = "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9"    digit    = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9" However, one thing I did notice that according to the MSN spec. there is supposed to be a "latest" ABNF file at the following URL: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/standards/pwg5101-abnf.txt And that's not the correct URL for a lot of reasons...... JT ----- Forwarded by Jerry Thrasher/Lex/Lexmark on 10/12/2004 08:51 AM ----- <TABLE width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <TD>"Norbert Schade" <schade@oasissemi.com> 10/03/2004 01:09 PM <TD>                To:        <Ron.Bergman@Hitachi-ps.us>, <thrasher@lexmark.com>, <pzehler@crt.xerox.com>         cc:                 Subject:        custom media size</TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TT>Ron and others, </TT> <TT>I'm surprised about the ABNF for the custom media size in the Media Standardized Names spec. </TT> <TT>I've noticed that I can specify any number of decimals for the x dimension, but only 1 decimal for the y dimension. </TT> <TT>Is that an oversight or is there some deeper thinking behind it, which I do not yet see? </TT> <TT>I'm dodging away a bit by switching from inch to the smaller mm, but of course I'm still not perfect. </TT> <TT>Regards </TT> <TT>Norbert </TT> <TT>Norbert Schade </TT> <TT>Software Manager </TT> <TT>Oasis Semiconductor, Inc. 201 Jones Road Waltham, MA 02451 </TT> <TT>USA tel. 1-781-370-8929 fax. 1-781-370-8990 </TT> <TT>email: norbert.schade@oasissemi.com </TT> </BODY></HTML>