[tei-council] <said> proposals available

[Christian Wittern]

Syd Bauman wrote:
> The two separate proposals for the new <said> element are now
> available in http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/said/ (or will be as soon as
> the server syncs). The two proposals are in files called
>   said-asis
>   said-q-hi
> and each has .odd source and derived .doc.html, .rnc, and .rng files. 
>
> The two proposals are very similar. The only difference is how the
> <q> element is defined. In the latter ("said-q-hi") proposal, the
> Guidelines are explicit that <q> can be used for any of the various
> underlying reasons that gets represented with quotation marks. I
> prefer this proposal, in part because I think lots of people already
> use <q> this way.
>   

I think this is the crucial point in the whole proposal.  Not clearing 
up the muddy semantics of all three elements (said, q and quote) while 
introducing a new one would be a mistake, I think, especially in light 
of the frequency this is debated on TEI-L. 

So I will go with the new proposal which modifies <q>. 

One question that will need to be considered is which of these will go 
into TEI Lite?  Is it only <q>?  And will <cit> now also allow <q>?

Was there anything about <hi> in the proposal?  If yes, I missed it.

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
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