[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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