Indices

[Pavel Sanda]

Juergen,

the fact that we use in one dialog "Indices" and in another "Indexes" is intended?
p

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Post by Pavel Sanda
Juergen,
the fact that we use in one dialog "Indices" and in another "Indexes" is intended?
p

I already raised this point once, and Jurgen changed all occurrences of
Indices to Indexes after consulting some native speakers.

Is the "Indices"-string a new string maybe ?

Vincent

[Pavel Sanda]

Post by Vincent van Ravesteijn
I already raised this point once, and Jurgen changed all occurrences of
Indices to Indexes after consulting some native speakers.
Is the "Indices"-string a new string maybe ?

thanks
pavel

[Richard Heck]

Post by Vincent van Ravesteijn

Post by Pavel Sanda
Juergen,
the fact that we use in one dialog "Indices" and in another "Indexes" is intended?
p

I already raised this point once, and Jurgen changed all occurrences
of Indices to Indexes after consulting some native speakers.

I think it was meant to be the other way around: "Indices" is correct,
and all plurals of "Index" should be changed to that.

rh

[Rob Oakes]

As I've always been curious about this, I decided to try and look it up. According to Dictionary.com, both indexes and indices are correct. I think that we should just pick one and stay consistent. When I see the term in biomedical science, it is usually written as indexes. I've been told that "Indices" dominates in the mathematics and the sciences whose practitioners use "real maths."

I think we should just pick one, write it in stone and be tremendously consistent.

Cheers,

Rob

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Post by Richard Heck
I think it was meant to be the other way around: "Indices" is correct,
and all plurals of "Index" should be changed to that.

I remember that was my view as well back then (or, for that matter: both are
valid, but "indices" is formally better). But then, Bennett and ou raised the
point that "indexes" might be less confusing for newbies:

http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=124022471114910&w=2

In any case, we should decide for one version and use that.

(In the code, there are still uses of "indices" AFAIR. I think this is not a
problem; we should be consistent in the GUI, though).

Jürgen

[Pavel Sanda]

Post by Jürgen Spitzmüller
I remember that was my view as well back then (or, for that matter: both are
valid, but "indices" is formally better). But then, Bennett and ou raised the
http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=124022471114910&w=2
In any case, we should decide for one version and use that.

lets stick to "indexes" then. i will clean it up as i will come through
cs.po... inside the code its no problem.

pavel

[Julien Rioux]

Post by Pavel Sanda
lets stick to "indexes" then.

Comming from a math and physics background, I've never ever seen
indexes, have always seen indices. But the meaning of indexes is rather
clear.

[Pavel Sanda]

Post by Pavel Sanda
lets stick to "indexes" then.

Comming from a math and physics background, I've never ever seen indexes,
have always seen indices. But the meaning of indexes is rather clear.

yes, on the other hand the "indices" in math have slightly different meaning
than "indexes" on the end of document - like indices in graph theory or so, no?

pavel

[Julien Rioux]

Post by Pavel Sanda

Post by Pavel Sanda
lets stick to "indexes" then.

Comming from a math and physics background, I've never ever seen indexes,
have always seen indices. But the meaning of indexes is rather clear.

yes, on the other hand the "indices" in math have slightly different meaning
than "indexes" on the end of document - like indices in graph theory or so, no?
pavel

I guess so, but it still sounds like a wrong pluralization of an
originally Latin noun to me. What's the plural of "latex"? ;)