Ron Daniel, Jr. wrote:
>
> At 03:52 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Rebecca S. Guenther wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Stu Weibel wrote:
> >> I think this is a bit of a warning... we should focus on the simple
> and
> >> common types first.
> ...
> For a general-purpose
> descriptive standard, the point of diminishing returns is reached VERY
> quickly. Let's just capture the broadest categories and leave it to
> interested communities to worry about finer distinctions. Those broad
> categories will be confusing enough when trying to explain them to
> an audience.
... and a small number of broad categories have already been
established and tested and *used widely* for *print-media*
resources by BibTex, for example. Adopting equivalents to
those would allow backward compatibility, conversions etc.
Can we borrow other sets from similar sources?
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