[tei-council] pdf version of guidelines, fonts

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Dec 6 10:52:54 EST 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
> I use Emacs. But IIRC, e-mail gateways are still 7-bit operations.
>   
seems to work for me.
> OK. It would be a lot easier on those looking for formatting problems
> if we waited to look at the results post-implementation of Julia &
> Chris's suggestions, rather than looking at the page and trying to
> imagine what the improvements will look like. But if there isn't
> time, so be it.
>   
I think leave it up to your common sense whether things
you see wrong are orthogonal to what Julia said.
>
> for the reasons stated. Using <num> or <formula> or, if those are too
> difficult <hi> with an apologetic explanatory comment seems like the
> way to go for data.numeric. 
>   
if only <hi> were allowed....

>  When user is
> typing along in oXygen and enters a unit= attribute, a lovely list of
> possible values pops up. This permits user to choose "mL" for
> milliliter, thus reducing the odds that one project uses "mL",
> another "ml", a third "millilitre", a fourth "milliliter", and yet a
> fifth "cc" for the same thing. Why is this bad?
agreed, its not bad.
>
> Which characters were giving you problems? Were they inside <desc>
> (in which case probably <formula> or <num> would do, but if necessary
> we could probably write the values out longhand) or the value of
> ident= (in which case we've no recourse)?
>   
it was in <desc>.

would
 <desc><num><hi rend="sup">-10</hi></num></desc>
be OK?

if so, we could revert to that.

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