Wouter Verhelst wrote: >A more realistic example would be > >Answer: Because the document contains an invariant section on the > author's opinion regarding the dangers of Software Patents in > the European Union. > >Something like that simply is not free. It might be true at the time the >piece is written; However, should the situation regarding Software >Patents in the European Union ever change, then there are three >possibilities:
[...] >* The Invariant Section is retained, but another Invariant Section > containing a rebuttal is added to the document. This would a) look > silly, and b) be a beginning of Invariant Section bloat, in which a > document could consist of 10% Invariant Sections, 60% rebuttals to > Invariant Sections, and 30% of actual, useful, documentation. I do not think this option is as bad as you make it sound. There is no need for the rebuttal to be made invariant, and the rebuttal could just be a brief note explaining that the invariant section refers to a situation which has gone away. -M- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]