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 On 8/6/02 10:05 AM, "J. David Eisenberg" <catcode@c...> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bob Hutchison wrote: > >> On 8/6/02 8:45 AM, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> wrote: >> >>> At 12:42 AM 8/6/2002 -0400, Bob Hutchison wrote: >>>> I could have sworn that the idiom is actually more like: >>>> 75°15'00" N 43°05'00" W >>>> >>>> And I've seen: >>>> 75 15 00N 43 05 00W >>>> >>>> I'm pretty sure the idiom is *not*: >>>> <lat>75°15'00" N</lat><long>43°05'00" W</long> >>>> >>>> So. I don't think your's is an acceptable answer. >>> >>> Okay, that's one way to look at it. I don't think processing any of the >>> idioms you present is that difficult a problem, nor are they nearly as >>> jarring as converting the whole thing to a number or two. >> >> I agree that processing is difficult (I don't know that that is a reason to >> do it though). I'm not a person who typically uses co-ordinates, so I'm >> hesitant to say that one thing is more or less jarring than another given >> that a change in notation is happening. For all I know giving up the actual >> idiom might be sufficient to allow a complete re-thinking of how something >> something should be re-written. > > In this particular instance, however, re-thinking 75°15'00" N as 75.25 > goes against decades (if not hundreds of years) of accumulated use of the > former idiom, accepted by virtually all the people working in that > particular field. The switch from a notation such as 75°15'00" N and 75 > 15 00 N is minor; the switch to 75.25 requires some real "CPU time" for a > human. I don't know. It seems to me that GPS co-ordinates don't look anything like 75°15'00" N. Of course they can be rendered/displayed that way. > > Similarly, 14:45 and 2:45 p.m. are common, interchangeable idioms; 885 is > not. 885? That's the number of minutes past midnight for that particular > time. Given the current discussion, that was instantly obvious to you, but > you'd never think of using that idiom in any ordinary documents or > correspondence involving times. I'm not convinced that the users/authors I know are interested in seeing markup either. Doesn't stop me from using markup, or them from using it -- and for the same reasons we can choose to use anything we want as text values. 
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