[tei-council] Topics for discussion: figure and figdesc

[Lou Burnard]

Julia Flanders wrote:


> --revision of <figure>: seems good to me, but I'm not sure I understand 
> the proposal exactly--is the <figDesc> element intended to appear both 
> within <figText> (which would have the content model of current <figure> 
> element) and also as a direct child of <figure>? Also: the current 
> content model of figure doesn't allow for the fact that text (including 
> poetry) may appear both/either above and below the graphical content of 
> the figure. It would be good to be able to accommodate this fact. It's 
> also good to preserve the current distinction between the text that 
> accompanies the figure (headings, captions, etc.) and text that is 
> actually embedded within the image content (e.g. speech ballons, painter 
> signatures, banners, signs, etc.).
> 

Apologies for lack of clarity. <figText> should NOT contain <figDesc> 
but be a sibling of it. The idea is that figure should contain heading 
information, figDesc, figText, a <graphic> element of some kind, and 
possibly a nested figure. Making figText repeatable around <graphic> is 
certainly a possibility, and one I hadn't thought of, though the details 
may be a little complicated to interpret. Maybe the REND attribute of 
<figText> should be used to specify whereabouts the text is located in 
the image in question.