[tei-council] Comments on Chapter 18, Tables, Formulae, and Graphics.

[David J Birnbaum]

Dear Lou (cc Sebastian, Council),

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but I think of having <lb/> or <pb/> between 
<row> elements as presentational, and therefore something that ought to 
be encoded with some value of @rend. We use @rend elsewhere to say "this 
is what the source looked like, but it's a presentational artifact, 
rather than part of the structural essence, so we aren't going to use 
structural elements to encode it." Aren't line and page breaks in the 
middle of tables similar? Or have I overlooked situations where line and 
page breaks within a table are truly structural?

If the intent is really to encode accidental presentational features on 
the same level as structural features, wide tables in source documents 
can be laid out across multiple pages, so from that perspective I 
suppose one could have a page break in the middle of every row of a wide 
table. Wouldn't this type of markup (as well as line and page breaks 
between rows) undermine the goal of prioritizing encoding what the 
source document is, rather than subordinating that encoding to how it 
looks?

And, for that matter, what is a line break between rows? Isn't there a 
logical line break between every two rows?

Puzzled,

David

Lou's Laptop wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> David J Birnbaum wrote:
>>> Unless I am also missing something, making it impossible for someone 
>>> to put <lb> elements between <cell> elements would be an improvement 
>>> greatly to be wished.
>>>
>> having <lb/> or <pb/> between <rows> may make sense, but not _inside_ a
>> <row>, I agree.
>>
> OK, I have changed the table content model to re-allow this