[tei-council] said at part

[Dan O'Donnell]

I'm not a big fan of @part either, but it was one of the methods in NH.

On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 15:55 -0400, Syd Bauman wrote:
> > Going through NH, I see that said at part is not allowed. @part shows
> > up in att.segLike
> > (http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-att.segLike.html)
> > and ab
> > http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-ab.html Does
> > anybody know why this is neither global nor restricted solely to
> > segs?
> 
> Well, I don't really know why, but part= is defined separately for
> att.divLike, att.segLike, and <l>. (IIRC, this has it on the same
> elements as in P4.) This attribute has only limited usefulness when
> elements can self-nest. So for <l> and <div2> it's very useful. But
> for <s>, <seg>, <said> (and even <div>), I prefer to avoid using it,
> because it's easy to encode things ambiguously:
> <p>a b <seg part="I">c d <seg part="I">e f</seg> g h</seg> i j</p>
> <p>k l <seg part="F">m n <seg part="F">o p</seg> q r</seg> s t</p>
> 
> You can't make that mistake with HORSE or next=/prev=. (You can, of
> course, still point to the wrong element, but that's a different kind
> of mistake :-)
> 
> So while I can see an argument for adding it to <q>, <quote>, and
> <said>, the above argument suggests not doing so, and in fact
> removing it from <cl>, <m>, <phr>, <s>, <seg>, <w>, <div>, and <lg>. 
> 
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