[tei-council] <specGrp> and <specGrpRef> formatting

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Sep 3 18:36:25 EDT 2007


In the version of PH I just checked in, I've moved all the declarations 
etc. to a section at the end of the chapter.

Does this look better?

Sebastian -- do all the *Spec elements have to be within a <specGrp>? I 
think not, but I left one for safety's sake.


Arianna Ciula wrote:
>
>
> James Cummings wrote:
>
>> At very least we should
>> get rid of the number.  This is just a generated number, and has no real
>> meaning to the reader. 
>
> Agree
>
>  Another option is to, in presentation form on,
>> as a final division to each chapter have a section where all of these 
>> are dealt with at once, once per module/chapter, rather than having 
>> them spread throughout the chapter.
>
> I think this is a good idea, but I am not sure how feasible it is 
> given the short time we have and more urgent priorities. Indeed, it 
> seems to me that every chapter has a slightly different structure that 
> would make this task rather time consuming. The editors know better.
>
> Arianna
>
>
>
>> As there is often prose which introduces the specGrpRefs and 
>> specGrps, there would need to be editorial changes to this, and the 
>> editors have been tasked with removing this regardless. (We should be 
>> able to automate the addition of leading prose if we do decide to 
>> retain these.)
>>
>> As you've all doubtless read in the minutes, you are all tasked with 
>> discussing this and coming to some decision by 2007-09-07.
>>
>> -James
>>
>> [1] I chose Specification Group 42 at (near)random and really have no 
>> interest in that one in particular, I've not bothered to look it up.
>>
>




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