[tei-council] P5 internal structure

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Tue Feb 27 09:34:19 EST 2007


Sebastian and I were actioned to determine what to do about the 
formatting problems in generating HTML from the newly vanilla-div 
structured  P5 whilst in Lithuania.

We discussed the following options:

0. Top level divs are numbered I to VIII; second level divs are numbered 
1 to 39. what is currently the first chapter of part II (numbered 4) 
remains numbered 4.

1. Combine top and subsequent level divs: what is currently the first 
chapter of part II (numbered 4) becomes II.1

2. Forget about the part numbers: what is currently the first chapter of 
part II (numbered 4) remains numbered 4.

3. Special case the first chapter in each part so that it does something 
magical to produce an extra blank page, possibly with an extra heading 
or something.

We observed that:

(a) the current structure is in need of overhaul -- some of the chapters 
are very small and others very large; some closely related material 
(e.g. CH and WD) is widely separated; the distinction between "core" and 
"additional" tagsets is defunct.

(b) the chapters that define modules should probably be separated from 
those which don't, both by numbering and form of title. Some of the 
current introductory material could move into the <front>; some of the 
current "technical material" could move into the <back>.

We concluded:

We will begin by adopting option 2 above. This is by far the simplest 
solution if we want to get out reasonable looking and accessible HTML in 
the near future. It also leaves room for us to group and regroup 
chapters without major upheaval.

The downside is that those who have got accustomed to thinking of 
chapter CH as chapter 4 will have to get reprogrammed. But they have 
quite a lot of reprogramming to endure anyway.



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