Despite earlier proofing, I ran into an ambiguity in my LTM — Cheat-Sheet today.
The correction is from:
Encoding @”encoding”
to:
Encoding
@”encoding”
Hopefully to make it clear that “Encoding” is just a header and not part of the syntax. (Changed the coloring on “Encoding” from red to black as well.)
While writing a short topic map today I created the topic:
[ru1-1-2-2 : morph = “YM\u0022Y03”;
“ru1:1,2.2”
@”http://www.grovescenter.org/GC/hb/ru1-1-2-2″]
The basename is based on:
YM”Y03
in a standard Hebrew transliteration system.
I substituted the \u0022 Unicode escape sequence for double-quote mark.
Which displayed:
YM”Y03
So far, so good.
But I also had:
[ru1-1-13-2 : morph = “&:D\u002274Y”;
“ru1:1,13.2”
@”http://www.grovescenter.org/GC/hb/ru1-1-13-2″]
The basename being derived from:
&:D”74Y
Can you guess the character that was displayed without looking?
In case you are wondering, I tried to introduce a space between the escape sequence and “74” (an accent reference) to see if it made any difference:
&:D\u0022 74Y
Same result.
(spoiler space)
The result:
Not exactly what I was hoping for.
The real answer is to obtain an UTF-8 version of the file in Hebrew, so I don’t have to worry with ASCII transliteration.
Still, you may encounter a case where you need to use Unicode escape characters.
Take this as a cautionary tale.
Post-publicaton proofing is more accurate than pre-publication proofing.
Thoughts on why that is the case? 😉
I forgot to update the revision number in 0.2 and minor though it may be, wanted to correct that.
So, LTM Cheat-Sheet 0.3 is now available.
I will go back to the earlier posts so they point to the latest version.
I caught a couple of typos in version 0.1 and have posted version 0.2 of the LTM — Cheat-Sheet.
Changes as follows:
to signal its missing -> to signal it’s missing
followed (bold)by(/bold) -> followed by
[and] -> and
[optional] -> [opt] 2X
Update: 3 November 2012. Latest version is LTM — Cheat-Sheet 0.3. Post announcing it: LTM — Cheat-Sheet Update (One update begats another).
I had someone ask for Linear Topic Map (LTM) syntax instead of XTM.
My marketing staff advised: “The customer is always right.” 😉
I created this LTM cheat-sheet, based on “The Linear Topic Map Notation, version 1.3, by Lars Marius Garshol.
Thought it might be of interest.
Comments, suggestions, corrections welcome!
Update: 3 November 2012. Latest version is LTM — Cheat-Sheet 0.3. Post announcing it: LTM — Cheat-Sheet Update (One update begats another).
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