on capitalization in glosses (was "Re: [tei-council] Glosses, glosses ...")

[James Cummings]

Syd Bauman wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I was not being clear. In general, all glosses are all lower
> case. The only current exceptions are acronyms ("XML", "MIME", "ODD",
> "TEI", "FSD"). But what if the gloss itself is a proper noun? The
> example is the attribute value "WGS84" should have a gloss of either
> "World Geodetic System" or "world geodetic system".

I'd vote for the former.

> And yes, this is a question of editorial policy primarily aimed at
> Lou.

But yes, it should be consistent with whatever editorial policy is, and I
know I've never internalised that.

-James

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