Thanks for the comments James. 

In message <46B9A467.8050402@oucs.ox.ac.uk> James.Cummings@oucs.ox.ac.uk writes:

> Niggles:
> 
> <item>a TEI Header and a text</item>
> <item>a TEI Header and a facsimile element</item>
> <item>a TEI Header, a facsimile, and a text</item>
> 
> - 'text' vs 'facsimile element' vs 'facsimile'.  Confusing.  Use the same
> mode of expression throughout.  Why no use of <gi>?


Christian picked this one up too. No gi because the intention was to use the
refer to the thing the tags denote (i.e. TEI Header rather than <teiHeader> )
but the word "element" confuses things somewhat

> - I like the potential use of binaryObject ... could we have an example?
> (And I suppose you don't want to know that it potentially is a patent
> conflict with microsoft ... them suing us would be good publicity I suppose.)


+1 

>
> - Is surface a form of choice?  Should the fact that it isn't be
> highlighted somewhere.  (i.e. that you might want to point to more than one
> of these simultaneously somewhere?)
>

the rule of thumb is that if you have more than one <graphic> directly inside a
<facsimile> then they are NOT alternatives ; if however they are inside a
<surface> or an <area> then they always are. So if you have multiple
(non-altermnationg) images, each one has to be within its own <surface>  or
<area>. There's a sense then in which it is a special kind of <choice> but I
don't want to get Daniel started.

Other suggestions welcomed!

> - I still don't like @box as a name, but I have no better suggestions.

the floor is open... but please dont suggest @coords (too general). I  preferred
it to @rect because it's a complete word and shorter and doesnt sound faintly rude 

> "blah blah I cant <lb/> help they only taught me old english in print form"
> 
> - Which image is it again that you're reading, as council happens to have a
> few medievalists on it at the moment, I'm sure we can transcribe it more
> accurately.  

It's the same image as the one Conal uploaded to the wiki and I thought I'd
copied it into the Drafts website at the URL given in the ODD, but I now see I
haven't. Will fix later this afternoon. But note that this image is copyright
(as well as hard to read), so I would rather find an out of copyright and more
legible casae for P5.


Perhaps we should also include some other manuscript and even
> print sources as examples?  (Maybe a Wilfred Owen  Postcard or some such?
> with recto and verso images.)
> 

ooh yes yes please.


So how many council members are (a) on the beach (b) in Montreal this week?