[tei-council] comments on "Representation of Primary Sources"

[James Cummings]

Lou Burnard wrote:
>> According to its <desc>, <g>:
>> <q>(character or glyph) represents a non-standard character or glyph.
>> @ref	points to a description of the character or glyph intended. </q>
>>
>> This would preclude the use for more than one glyph.  Since the intention is
>> to docment the abbreviation, which is arguably one glyph, <g> could be seen
>> to represent the abbreviation, referenced through the @ref attribute, but
>> not the characters "er" or "per" as in the example.
>>
>> I would therefore propose to rewrite the example using these characters as
>> the content of <g>:
>>
>> eu<g ref="#er">er</g>y <g ref="#per">per</g>sone that loketh after heuen
>> hath a place in this
>> ladder
> This is OK for the earlier examples, and I have made the suggested 
> changes there, but it wouldn't work for the later examples where <am> 
> and <ex> are introduced. This has also been the subject of some debate 
> on one of the lists recently, so I'm  reluctant to rock this part of the 
> boat without further discussion -- James?

I don't think this is a problem in the examples where <am> and <ex> exist, in 
this case I would just have <g ref="#per"/> since it is standing as a single 
character, but I agree with Christian that <g ref="#per">per</g>sone is better, 
but see that you've already done that change.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk