[tei-council] P5 internal structure

Christian Wittern wittern at kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tue Feb 27 19:30:55 EST 2007


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.

If I understand this correctly, this just means that we get a sequential 
numbering of chapters?  This seems to be exactly what was up as P5 HTML 
up to now. On http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/ for 
example, there are no part numbers, at least not at some visible place, 
i.e. in the left sidebar.

This seems to be the least intrusive option to me, so you have my 
support for it.

> 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.

This does not seems to be a conclusion of Option 2, but rather of the 
further action you proposed.  Since that is not spelled out here, I take 
it that you will present your plans on this in more details later.


Christian



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