On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:

If I understand this correctly, it assumes that there would be a general "property" entity. An instance of this entity would then be the property "shape", which has a list of generally applicable values. Some of these values would apply to leaves as well as to butterfly wings, other may be more specific.

Actually, what I'd like to see as a requirement is more modest than this. I simply propose that there should be the possibility of explicitly recording a property name, which need not have any global significance.

The property could be expressed in many ways, but for the sake of an example I suggest that we might possibly have a DELTA character that looked like this:

#2. body <@property degree of convexity>/ 1. strongly flattened/ 2. slightly flattened to moderately convex/ 3. strongly convex/

-Noel