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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net> writes:
>
>> Previous mails has indicated that there are some confusion regarding
>> what we call an article - sometimes regardless of the actual marks of
>> it and sometimes the marks are considered - and I just tries to see if
>> we can do something about that confusion. Renaming some of the terms
>> might help.
>
> Or perhaps just document the current terms some more...

I'm not sure that we want to document "`read' is ambiguous".  I guess
that it would be much better to avoid ambiguity.

WDYT?

Kai

PS: *The* `read' mark is shown as the characters R and r, whereas *a*
    `read' mark could be any of R, r, K, Y, ...