[tei-council] vote on NH

[David J Birnbaum]

Dear Council,

Like Syd, I think that a failure to address overlap in 5.0 would be very 
unfortunate. It's an important topic, many people will have to deal with 
it one way or the other, and since we're in the business of providing 
guidelines, this seems like a place where guidance is particularly 
needed. I don't have a strong preference among the A options; I fear 
that it would be a mistake to attempt something more ambitious than the 
available time might permit (A1 is the safest course in this case), but 
I'd like to see the issues addressed in some form in 5.0 (A2 or A3, if 
we have the time and manpower to do a respectable job).

Best,

David

Syd Bauman wrote:
> I don't know if my vote counts or not, but I am definitely and
> strongly in favor of A. I think it is important that NH be included
> in P5 1.0. As I've said before, you can't have Guidelines for
> encoding extant texts with XML that don't address overlap. 
>
> While I think either suggested re-arrangement would be an
> improvement, I do not think it is at all essential that the
> re-arrangement occur before 1.0. If Lou has time, great. If not, it
> is not a show-stopper, it can be done later. In either case, I think
> A2 might be the somewhat better starting point.
>
> Whether the chapter gets its re-arrangement before or after 1.0, what
> we really should be doing for 1.1, IMHO, is to
>
> * have NH generate a module that includes at a minimum
>   next=, prev=, and part=
>
> * address what bits belong in SA, and what belongs in NH
>
> * commit to supporting one form (or at most two forms) of segment
>   boundary delimiters in at least a limited fashion -- this may well
>   require work in TD to match
>
> * include a section discussing that the use of milestones (<pb>,
>   <cb>, <lb>, <milestone>) as discussed in CO is a method of handling
>   a particular kind of overlap
>
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