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Yes, best not to use query boxes, as they will more likely be ignored and, if not, there is no good way to discuss what to do in reaction.
The HowTo still announces query boxes here, only to say as an afterthought that they shouldn’t be used. It does so by claiming that
the wiki software does contain a mechanism for putting questions and comments on a wiki page itself:
which is very generous towards “the wiki software”.
I suggest to clear the entire section HowTo – Make comments and ask questions and replace it by a pointer to the nForum.
<p>Unable to make the list format properly. Giving up.</p>
<p>XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </li>.
Location: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/numerable+open+cover
Line Number 1173, Column 403:</p>
<p><a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/numerable+open+cover/11">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/numerable+open+cover/11">v11</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/numerable+open+cover">current</a></p>
This is bizarre.
Revision 11 formats correctly: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/numerable+open+cover/11
The current revision is identical to Revision 11, but does not format correctly: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/numerable+open+cover
This is definitely a bug in the parser, since the interface should not even allow saving pages when XML errors are present.
OK, I fixed it by making sure the \end{proposition} was in a new paragraph. But for me, at least, none of the TeX-like syntax is rendering.
\cite was supposed to be working, I have definitely seen it to produce something other than the TeX code.
added pointer to:
Concerning this paragraph (written by David Roberts, I believe):
There is also a 1944 result by Dieudonnne that numerable covers are cofinal in locally finite covers of normal spaces — need to add this! See, eg, Theorem 6.3 of Howes’ Modern analysis and topology.
I looked into Howes’s book and he indeed claims that Dieudonné proved that locally finite open covers of normal spaces are numerable in his 1944 paracompactness paper.
However, Dieudonné’s paper is only 12 pages long, and after looking through it several times I do not see any mentions of partitions of unity, let alone the theorem mentioned above.
The only results about locally finite open covers that it seems to have is Theorem 6, which shows that point-finite open covers can be refined by open covers whose closure refines the original open cover.
Odd! Is this even true, then?
Re #21: Yes, a proof is written up here (omit the first paragraph, though): https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/paracompact+Hausdorff+spaces+equivalently+admit+subordinate+partitions+of+unity#OpenCoverOfParacompactHausdorffSpaceAdmitsPartitionOfUnityProof
Oh, good!
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