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On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:08:24 -0700
Herbert M Sauro <hsauro@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> I agree with Pedro, simple measures such as stdev etc could easily be
> in the core. I am reminded of the saying:
>
> Make the simple things simple and hard things
> possible
>
> I think that most likely applies here.
>
> The distrib package could be used to hold the 'hard' information.
>
>

I more than second this!

Stefan


> Herbert Sauro
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 13, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Pedro Mendes <mendes@vbi.vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 07/12/2012 04:32 PM, Nicolas Le Novère wrote:
> >> The big question is the package to which those attribute should
> >> belong to:
> >> 1) core (remember those are optional attributes)?
> >> 2) distrib?
> >> 3) another package? (at some point it was suggested to develop a
> >> stat package, for instance to extend the MathML).
> >
> >
> > I am probably too old fashioned, but I would actually add this to
> > the core. Programs could easily ignore the stdev attribute, but
> > those who know what to do with it could then take it.
> >
> > The alternative would be to make a very small package that just
> > adds these optional attributes.
> >
> > I agree with Nicolas that to force a full-blown distrib package is
> > perhaps too much and very few programs would therefore end up
> > taking this up.
> >
> > Pedro
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