[tei-council] Re: figurin' about <figure>

Wed Jul 25 06:27:17 EDT 2007

Lou Burnard wrote:
>
>> But I am also a bit uncomfortable with the content model permitting
>> <head> anywhere other than as the first textual element (other than
>> globals). The Guidelines explicitly say that the transcription of the
>> caption or descriptive paragraph should occur after the <head>.
I'd say change the Guidelines
>
>> In any case, I think both in the prose and in an example we should
>> recommend using <ab type="caption"> for a caption. After all,
>> depending on your defintion of "paragraph", a caption isn't one.
>> (Might think of using <label> for captions, I suppose.)
>>
>
> Not sure what the difference between a caption and a head is within a 
> figure
indeed. if <head> isnt a <caption>, I am gobsmacked. seems like
angels on a pin to me.
>
>>
>> I also don't wonder whether <figure> should permit model.egLike in
>> addition to model.graphicLike. One can imagine wanting to associate a
>> heading or a coption with an example.
>>
>
> This could work. Or could make model.egLike a subclass of 
> model.graphicLike
>
or add <head> to <exemplum>

frankly, I feel that that this sort of discussion should have
taken place at chapter review time, not now....

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