Med. Man. desc. workgroup

[Fotis Jannidis]

After reading the documents collected on the given url I have the 
understanding, that the scope of the proposed tags is to provide a 
means to describe some of the physical aspects of texts and some 
semantic aspects. 
I think there is still the need for a set of tags to describe the 
physical layout of text on the page. It should be possible to create 
a diplomatic transcription of a source with TEI - better even, to 
create a TEI encoded texts which can also be the input for an xslt 
stylesheet to produce a diplomatic transcription, lets say in xsl:fo. 

In other words: chapter 18 of P4 still ends with a list of things to 
do: 
" These guidelines particularly do not address the encoding of 
physical description of textual witnesses: the materials of the 
carrier, the medium of the inscribing implement, the layout of the 
inscription upon the material, the organisation of the carrier 
materials themselves (as quiring, collation, etc.), authorial 
instructions or scribal markup, etc."

The TEI Work Group on Medieval Manuscript has started to deal with 
some of them and imho there is a need to deal also with "the layout 
of the inscription upon the material". 
As far as I could see on the TEI website no workgroup is handling 
this at the moment. If this is correct I want to propose to establish 
such a workgroup. 

Fotis

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PD Dr. Fotis Jannidis
Deutsche Philologie - LMU Muenchen
http://www.jannidis.de