[tei-council] Layout of P5 on the file system

[Edward Vanhoutte]

One of the items I want to bring up may seem trivial, and subject to 
much discussion, but is i.m.h.o. quite important: the lay-out of the 
printed version of the Guidelines. My students and staff have found the 
P3 layout easier to work with than the P4 lay-out. Especially for the 
reference secion in vol 2. One does occasionaly still consult the books, 
and in teaching situations it's still the first physical contact with 
the work of the TEI. Could we think about this (not as an item for the 
conference call, but as an issue in the process of releasing P5)?

Edward

Christian Wittern wrote:

> Dear Council members,
> 
> One of the issues I am pondering occasionally is how to improve the
> thorny issue of dealing with the physical files of the TEI
> Guidelines, its various Schemas, Stylesheets entities etc.  I hope
> that we can find a layout of the TEI subtree on the file system,
> which makes it easier to understand, use and maintain.  In this 
> context, I would like to recommend to the Councils attention a
> document by the Debian XML team, which details the layout of the XML
> subsystem in Debian GNU/Linux[1] and might serve as a good starting
> point for defining our own policy.  
> 
> If council members would agree to this, I would like to propose to
> similarily document the structure somewhere in the Guidelines and
> implement it for P5.
> 
> Comments?   If no objections are raised, I will put this on the
> agenda for our next call.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> [1] http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/xml-policy/index.html
> 

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