Martin,

Is this as much to say that it is better to aim for accuracy even at the 
sacrifice of some precision, than it is to aim for precision at the cost of 
accuracy?

(As to the issue itself: while your advice is sound, I think it needs to be 
up to particular projects whether to take it. But I also think, by Lou's 
account of how P5 is to handle it, that we've got it covered.)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 10:40 AM 8/10/2005, you wrote:
>The singular (and perhaps single) advantage of digitally encoded
>texts is that one can scan quickly across large data sets. From that
>perspective, the encoder is better off using coarse criteria
>consistently than being very subtle here and even more subtle, but in
>a different way, there.
>
>There is also the opening sentence of the Gallic Wars: Gallia est
>omnis divisa in partes tres. Whatever is divisible into three parts
>can be conquered.
>
>Martin Mueller


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