[tei-council] hands=

[James Cummings]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> we could treat it like dates, and add @maxHands and @minHands alongside
> @hands, all integer. so you have to commit yourself to saying "at least 3"
> or "no more than 8", or "exactly 2".
> 
> or copy dates even more, and have a pointer to a taxonomy with
> @handRange (comparable to @period).
> 

Isn't this the same problem that Gaby, PaulS and others were having with 
@extent and similar attributes?  i.e. extent="1+" unit="words" for that 
there is 'at least one word missing' but unknown otherwise.  If there was a 
@minExtent @maxExtent (or if in the presence of @maxExtent, @extent was 
treated like @minExtent) then that would solve their problem.

If we are doing the same kind of thing for other elements, maybe we should 
just be having a class of @min and @max with relating to @unit on many 
different elements.  So unit="hands" unit="minims" unit="folios".  I 
realise the first of these is a very different type of unit, but we're 
still counting something, no?

-james

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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
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