[J3] [SC22WG5.6428] F2023 DIS ballot results and comments

Gary Klimowicz gak at dancingbear.dev
Wed Feb 1 21:04:53 UTC 2023


> On Feb 1, 2023, at 09:37, d.muxworthy--- via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
>> The argument against line numbers is that, especially when the document is translated, they can change. Does anyone have strong opinions about whether we should put line numbers back in the official standard? I'd like to keep the paragraph numbers and don't care about line numbers.
> 
> Unlike line numbers paragraph numbers remain invariant with different font sizes (mentioned by ITTF in the DIS comments), page sizes and page margins as well as in any translation.  I vote to keep paragraph numbers and not to have line numbers in the versions going outside the Fortran committees.
> David

I agree with David.


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