ISSUE 159

Number 159
Category errata
Synopsis footnote numbering in syntax boxes
State lrmdraft
Class errata-simple
Arrival-DateOct 12 2002
Originator Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
Release 2001b, many
Environment
Description
In Draft 6, we had numbered footnotes in syntax boxes, just as we did in Annex
A.

The IEEE, in both 1ed and 2ed, changed those numbers to special symbols, such as
asterisk, dagger, etc.

This is awkward where there are many footnotes, and makes it harder to refer to
a specific footnote. Furthermore, some of those special symbols did not come out
in the IEEE PDF and printed editions. In Annex A, they were still numbered.

Oddly, what IEEE did does not seem to match their conventions.

According to the IEEE Standards Style Manual, body and annex footnotes should be
numbered, whereas table and figure footnotes should be lettered. Presumably,
syntax boxes are closer to tables and figures. In any cases, either letters or
numbersm but not special symbols.

In 3ed, we should make sure they are either numbers or letters.

Shalom

Fix
Shalom (editor) to implement the replacement back to what we had
before the IEEE's changes.
Audit-Trail

From: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
To: etf-bugs@boyd.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: errata/159: footnote numbering in syntax boxes
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 10:38:15 +0200

I changed the Table and Syntax Box footnote numbering scheme from Custom to
Alphabetic lower-case,
in accordance with IEEE Standards Style Guide.

Affected places are:

Syntax 2-1
Syntax 2-2
Table 29
Syntax 12-7
Syntax 15-2
Syntax 15-15
Table 63
Table 64



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