emunix.emich.edu>
Editor for this issue: John H. Remmers <remmersemunix.emich.edu>
emunix.emich.edu>If you read LINGUIST on the web, you may have noticed some changes to the format of issues, starting with LINGUIST 8.663. There are more links in the menu bar that follows each message. In addition to the mail links that facilitate replying to the author and the list, there are new links to make navigation more convenient. A "Read more issues" link takes you the issues "front page" that contains an index of the fifty most recent issues and links to the topic indices. There is also a link to the LINGUIST home page and a "Top of issue" link that takes you to the directory for the current issue. The HTML conversion software now recognizes internet-style email addresses and references to LINGUIST issues and messages, making them into live links. The latter feature should be particularly useful in discussion threads. The standard forms LINGUIST 8.663 (reference to an issue) LINGUIST 8.663.1 (reference to a message) are recognized, as well as the "Re: " mail reply convention Re: LINGUIST 8.663 and its abbreviation Re: 8.663 Recognition of these patterns is case-insensitive, so that "Linguist", "RE: ", etc. also work. In addition, hyphens instead of periods may be used to separate the parts of an issue reference. Detection and conversion to links is done in both message bodies and subject lines. Contributors are encouraged to use the standard forms or the "Re: " forms when referencing LINGUIST issues. The latter is most appropriate in subject lines, where in fact your mail software may supply it automatically under some circumstances. The software that generates the HTML issues was developed by myself and Zhiping Zheng. If you have any comments or sugges- tions for improvement, please let the moderators or us know. - John H. Remmers +----------------------------------+ Eastern Michigan University | mailto:remmersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue