[tei-council] handShift anomaly
Lou's Laptop
lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Sat Sep 30 06:35:45 EDT 2006
This came up in discussion with an attendee of the TEI workshop last
week ...
According to the text of PH, the attributes @new and @old are optional
on handShift. However, according to the schema, both (!) are required.
I propose to change the schema to match the documentation (rather than
the other way round). I also propose to allow <handShift> , currently
empty, to contain a <desc> element.
This means that an encoder can choose from the following spectrum:
1. Just mark the change of hand
<handshift/>
2. Provide a bit of description
<handShift><desc>starts using green ink</desc></handShift>
3. Point to a more detailed discussion of the new hand
<handShift new="#greenInk"/> (somewhere else there will be a
<handDesc xml:id="greenInk">)
4. Point to a more detailed discussion of both previous and new hands (?
why you'd want to do this I cannot imagine, but still)
<handShift new="#greenInk" old="#typeScript"/>
5. Modify the information conveyed by the pointer
<handShift new="#greenInk">
<desc>a slightly darker shade than used elsewhere</desc>
</handShift>
Any objections?
for <desc> read "member of model.descLike", of course.
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