[tei-council] Re: TEI P5 release 0.7

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon May 28 11:37:33 EDT 2007


Ooops. Thanks for spotting this. Removed.

L

Arianna Ciula wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that <att>nymKey</att> has now correctly become 
> <att>nymRef</att> (therefore datat.pointer); however there is still 
> one reference to <att>nymKey</att> in the ND prose.
>
> I suppose we could deal with this tomorrow, but since it's an easy fix 
> and the new chapter is already public, I thought useful to point it out.
>
> Arianna
>
>
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> A new release of P5 has just slipped its mooring and glided away into 
>> the darkling night,
>> accompanied by its Stylesheets and Roma consorts, intent on havoc 
>> across the text
>> encoding oceans.
>>
>> This release is relatively minor, but is the start of what I hope 
>> will be 4 more releases
>> before the final 1.0; so expect to see the predators emerging once a 
>> month or so from now on.
>>
>> The release includes many small fixes made at the TEI Council's spring
>> meeting in Berlin, though there are a lot still to come from that. 
>> Among the
>> (obscure) things you may notice:
>>
>> *) the hoary old entities/macros mix.drama, mix.verse etc are all gone.
>>     if conceivably you mourn their passing, let us know
>>
>> *) the macro.component object has also gone, replaced by simply
>>     a call to macro.common. You may have this in an existing ODD file
>>    - contact me if you cannot see how to fix.
>>
>> *) the att.naming class adds a new @ref attribute to things like <name>.
>>    This removes a confusion whereby the @key attribute was said to allow
>>    either a token or a URL pointer. Now you have to make up your mind -
>>    use @ref if its a pointer, @key if its a private token.
>>
>> No, the @rend attribute has NOT changed its datatype
>> or semantics in this release.
>>
>> As ever, the release is on Sourceforge, on the Debian package repository
>> at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/, and on the TEI web site. A Live
>> CD will be ready shortly, Dr Who permitting (UK readers
>> will know whta I mean...)
>>
>




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