[tei-council] file names voting results

Lou's Laptop lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Sep 4 19:40:50 EDT 2006


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Conal Tuohy wrote:
>> AFAIK the point of the exercise is merely to help authors, editors,
>> translators, etc, to make reference to those files, by giving them a
>> human-language label as well as their unique code. 
> Indeed. I can see some (rather small) point in it, which is why I 
> voted for it.
> All other things being equal, I'd have made the identifiers match the
> file names (as those for *Spec do), but I can see that's too late.

The big difference is that the *Spec identifiers aren't used as cross 
references spattered throughout the text!
>
>> Moreover, it's better to retain the short codes for
>> the output file names since they are likely to make more stable URLs
>> than the human-readable labels, which are subject to revision.
>>   
> ok, sure, I can see the argument there
>
Yes. Also the human readable labels are language specific.  It wouldn't 
be too hard to supply them as values for the @n attribute on <div1>s though.


 



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