Re: issue: draft posts

[Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:26:03 -0800, Walter Underwood <wunder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> --On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:10:56 AM -0500 Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >    The value "publish" signifies that the entry should be published.
> >
> >    The value "draft" signifies that the entry should not be published.
> 
> Both values should be the same part of speech. I take "draft" to be
> a noun (or adjective) here, so use "published".
> 
> Since this is a state, a noun or adjective is appropriate. Let's not
> describe it as a command, "should be published". Perhaps "available for
> publication" or "publication is allowed".
> 
> I still can't remember the three kinds of lists in LaTeX. One of them
> is a verb, but is it "enumerate" or "describe"? Let's not make that
> mistake again.

Ok, 'publish' does bother me, 'published' would be better. In digging through
thesaurus.com I couldn't come up with much better:

    draft, preliminary, rough, sketch

and 

   published, final, finished

We could always drop 'draft' and use 'private'/'public'.

   -joe

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