[tei-council] Editorial work after 17 sept

[Lou Burnard]

Arianna Ciula wrote:
> 
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> can I put in a plea for work on Appendix D Bibliography
>> and Appendix E Index, please? and more on Appendix F.
>> I'd feel happier if these were cleaned up/deleted/replaced
>> sooner rather than later. In an ideal world we'd put all the 
>> bibliographical
>> references in the text into the bibliography
>> and cite them properly/consistently.

There is an long standing action (on Syd if memory serves) to revise the 
bibliography. It contains much that is superannuated and irrelevant.

> 
> Sure, but it seems to me that the bibliography contains references that 
> are not necessarily cited or even used in the chapters. Am I wrong? if 
> yes, then we could try and collect all the references chapter by chapter 
> into one full bibliography as you probably are suggesting already.
> So in the single chapters we would just have references to the entries 
> in the full bibliography rather than the other way round.

The original bibliog was conceived as a demonstration of how <bibl> 
worked and as a reading list of useful relevant stuff. It was not 
conceived as the kind of formal academic bibliog you are thinking of 
here -- the kind that collects all the works cited in the body of the 
text. I think I agree that a bibliog of the latter kind would indeed be 
an improvement, but would represent a *lot* of work. Should it also 
include the source for all the cited examples?


> 
> Easy to give advise, isn't it?...ok, I would volunteer to do this, but 
> is this something we can do before all the chapters are in a sort of 
> frozen state?

Not a good idea to do it yet -- but if you're volunteering, I am sure I 
can find a slot for you to do it in!


> 
> Appendix F can go for me.
> 

Tsk tsk, where's your sense of history?