[tei-council] [Fwd: Re: <note place="foot"/> vs. <note place="bottom"/>]

[Lou Burnard]

Council members may like to mull over whether or not we should 
reconsider @place="foot"... it is actually used passim in the Guidelines 
source :-(





-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: <note place="foot"/> vs. <note place="bottom"/>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:42:50 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at OUCS.OX.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at OUCS.OX.AC.UK>
To: TEI-L at listserv.brown.edu

Stefan Krause wrote:
> we have to encode documents with simple footnotes. While the P5
> documentation
> (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#CONO)
> and the rng schema recommend <note place="bottom"/>, the
> html-stylesheets only work well with <note place="foot"/> (which is
> also mentioned in the guidelines, see
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/SA.html#SAPT).
>
> Is there a "right" way to encode footnotes, or are there some
> semantic differences between "bottom" and "foot"?
>   
The Technical Council decided in its infinite wisdom
to prefer 'bottom' to 'foot'. A portion of the
Guidelines needs to be updated (SA), which  will happen
shortly, and my stylesheets need to be updated to
support 'bottom'. Which, indeed, they now do if you
look at Sourceforge.

Thanks for spotting the inconsistency!

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