[tei-council] P5 internal structure

[Arianna Ciula]

It is a pity to loose the old chapters references, but if the overall 
HTML structure can benefit and be improved the modifications are more 
than welcome.

Arianna

Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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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Dr Arianna Ciula
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Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
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