Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot

[David Price]

Max,

Of course the normal ballot process in any country can be used when
reviewing the modules!  The ballot comment application is just an option
available to anyone finding it useful. As I understand it, the guidelines
for country comment submission are agreed by SC4 and so are the same for
all ballots. I agree that as HTML has no page numbers, we cannot use that
as a reference in a comment.

Thanks,
David



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Max Ungerer <ungerer at prostep.de> on 12/18/2000 12:44:24 PM

To:   David Price/Bethesda/IBM at IBMUS
cc:   jfowler at pdtsolutions.co.uk, qc at cme.nist.gov, wg10 at steptools.com
Subject:  Re: Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot



David et al,

I learned at the Charleston meeting, that PDES developped a ballot
submission tool which works with the HTML version of modules and allows for
gathering issues, preparing national votes, etc.
The guidelines for reviewers to qualify their comments should be the same
whether they are using the tool or doing it by hand.

Regards,

Max



At 12:07 18.12.2000 +0000, Julian Fowler wrote:
David et al

For the purposes established by the SC4 resolution, the sample file
attached to your message looks fine to me. Noting the lack of page
numbers, and given that the HTML is regarded as the master document,
I think that it would be useful to ask reviewers to qualify their
comments by clause, paragraph, and sentence (rather than, for
example, "third line on page 7") when submitting issues.

A note in the "comments to reader" stating that the document has been
prepared using HTML and that there are some minor deviations from the
final presentation/layout requirements would also be useful to avoid
non-value-added comments during ballot.

regards
Julian


On 2000-12-13 at 11:36, you wrote:

> WG10 and QC,
>
> As you hopefully are aware, an SC4 resolution was passed that allows
> the suite of STEP application modules currently being developed in
> HTML to go out for ballot as a web site rather than as paper.  That
> resolution said that the documents going out for ballot in HTML must
> also be accompanied by a printable version (i.e. a PDF) so that people
> can review the documents on airplanes, etc.  As you might surmise,
> generating PDF from a linked set of web pages is not simple and so
> concerns have arisen as to how to do this and what the requirements on
> the PDF might be.  The modules developers are working on this and need
> our help.
>
> Attached is a PDF generated from one module that will go out for
> ballot in a few weeks.  The modules developers are asking what changes
> are required by SC4 in order for this to meet the requirements for "a
> printable version" of the module. I'll warn you that it is ugly
> compared to a traditional ISO ballot document but please remember that
> the only purpose is to allow offline technical review of portions of
> web site of modules.  Also, there are some format issues (e.g. the
> bulleted list of normative references and introductory text needed for
> some subclauses) that have already been raised.
>
> Comment please!
> Thanks,
> David
>
> (See attached file: identifcation_assignment.PDF)
>
> IBM Corporation
> 5300 International Blvd.
> N. Charleston, SC 29418, USA
> dmprice at us.ibm.com
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> Oooo.
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