RE: term for "numbers and letters but not punctuation orspecialsymbols"

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

Thanks, Richard.  We suffer from being reviewed by QA early in the
process because they are using our doc as a guide to developing test;
the original requirements have been altered so much that they are beyond
out of date to uninformative.

Yes, someone should keep up the requirements.  But we produce accurate
doc, so the QA group sometimes relies on us as a test source.

Along the way they give the doc a general review.  We have trouble
convincing them that they're not representative of the target audience
for the doc.

Incidentally, we give an example after the rather general introductory
sentence, letting them know that if they enter "Be" they'll get the
Beatles, but also Bear Family, Interbearance, and so on.  This isn't the
real example.

According to my informant (the intern doing most of the writing under my
direction, whose musical knowledge is much more up to date if not
broader than mine) lots of groups these days include numbers and other
odd characters in their names, so we can't restrict to letters.  We
don't have the special character that Prince used for a while on our
virtual keyboard, either.  Alas.

-  Jessica



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