[tei-council] hands=

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:
>
> a) remove the possibility of saying "many" from the description. If 
> people can't say how many hands there are, they should either not 
> supply this attribute at all, or use some coded value like 999 to 
> indicate that there is more than one
> b) redefine the datatype as data.word so that people can say 
> hands="lots" or hands="plenty" or indeed hands="strawberryJam"
> c) invent a new datatype using a fiendishly ingenious pattern which 
> matches either a string of digits or the string "many" but nothing 
> else. Then we'll probably find other cases where we want to use it.

a) the "999" solutions seems the worst; b) seems a bit retrograde; c) is 
I suppose acceptable,
but I don't like the idea of hard-coding "many" in there (I18N etc).  
I'd almost rather allow
"<" or ">" before the number.

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