[tei-council] facsimile

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Aug 27 07:35:48 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
> If you dont have an image you shouldn't be using <facsimile> in my view.
I do have an image, though. It's just not available electronically.
> a <facsimile> is an object composed of *images*, NOT data about images (that
> belongs in the header)
where? can you give an example?
>  NOT data about objects (we mostly don't have a home for
> that). A <surface> contains data about an *image of a surface*, NOT data about
> the original surface.
I suggest that Joe in the street will find this sophistry as hard to
grasp as I do....

Regardless, I still think <zone> and <surface> would benefit from <label>
and <bibl>.

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