We give a characterization of a paracompact -space to have a -diagonal in terms of three rectangular covers of . Moreover, we show that a local property and a global property of a space are given by the orthocompactness of .
It looks not useful to study the sup = max problem for extent, because there are simple examples refuting the condition. On the other hand, the sup = max problem for Lindelöf degree does not occur at a glance, because Lindelöf degree is usually defined by not supremum but minimum. Nevertheless, in this paper, we discuss the sup = max problem for the extent of generalized metric spaces by combining the sup = max problem for the Lindelöf degree of these spaces.