[tei-council] Glosses, glosses, everywhere, and what do you all think?

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jul 5 05:09:34 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
>
>
> A more radical proposal which occurs to me this morning is that we 
> should maybe merge this element with <tag> (and call it <tag>). Few 
> have ever understood the distinction, and even in the text of the 
> Guidelines I don't think it's applied consistently. Which suggests 
> it's not a distinction really worth making.
the example for <tag> is <tag>hi rend="it"</tag>, which is short hand for
<code>&lt;hi rend="it"&gt;</code>; which is not quite the same
as <gi>teiHeader</gi>. You might use the latter for making an index entry,
for instance.

so constraining <gi> to force you to use <tag> when you mean <code>
looks like a good thing, but
it does not stop the simple abuse of <tag>teiHeader</tag>.

<tag> seems like the one to drop, if at all.

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