[tei-council] P5 internal structure

[Laurent Romary]

Since I missed the preceding vote (vacances...), I anticipate on this  
one and fully support Lou's proposal.
Laurent

Le 27 févr. 07 à 15:34, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> 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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