[tei-council] more on internationalization

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Christian Wittern wrote:

>
>>the file teinames.xml in the Sourceforge I18N area
>>has the infrastructure ready for this to work, with some
>>Spanish translattions by Alejandro.
>>    
>>
>
>To me the file under sf/P5 looks much more complete.  
>
no, they are the same. just some formatting differences. I will
delete the one under P5

>however, I do
>not see <gloss>es there, only <desc>s. Are they (in current TEI
>editorial praxis) mutually exclusive, or what is there relationship?
>  
>
a good question. no, they are not mutually exclusive,
and I think Lou and Laurent would claim to know the difference,
but I am not convinced that they are used consistently.  <gloss>
is used for attributes in the way <desc> is used for elements,
so far as I can see.

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