[tei-council] P5 internal structure

[Dot Porter]

I support this proposal as well.

Dot

On 2/27/07, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at loria.fr> wrote:
> 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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