[tei-council] Fwd: <salute> at the beginning or the end of a letter

[Laurent Romary]

Hi Council,
I just come accross again on this message and did not see any answer  
to this on the list. Is this something that we should consider, or  
could someone knowledgeable provide an answer.
The request seems to be a legitimate one.
Cheers,
Laurent


Début du message réexpédié :

> De : Hilde Bøe <hilde.boe at KUL.OSLO.KOMMUNE.NO>
> Date : 1 avril 2009 13:33:30 GMT+02:00
> À : TEI-L at listserv.brown.edu
> Objet : <salute> at the beginning or the end of a letter
> Répondre à : hilde.boe at munch.museum.no
>
> Hello,
> The definitions of <salute> in P4 and P5 are identical: "contains a
> salutation or greeting prefixed to a foreword, dedicatory epistle, or
> other division of a text, or the salutation in the closing of a  
> letter,
> preface, etc." (see http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-
> doc/html/ref-SALUTE.html and http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-
> doc/en/html/ref-salute.html)
>
> I have problems understanding why <salute> is not a member of P5's
> model.divBottom, when it was a member of divbot (the equivalent of
> model.divBottom) in P4? The consequence of this is troubling me a
> little:
>
> I often need to use <salute> both in the beginning and at the end of a
> letter, but it seems unlogical to me that I need to use <closer>  
> when I
> want a <salute> element at the end of the letter, while I can use
> <salute> directly within <div> in the beginning (and without using
> <opener>, which I so far have understood as <closer>'s sibling. I  
> could
> use <opener> if I wanted to, but I don't need to.) If I have no
> salutation at the end of the letter, I don't need <closer> because
> <signed> and <dateline> which also often occur there can occur at the
> ending of <div>.
> (Similarly, <signed> have to be used within <opener> if it is to
> appear at the beginning of a letter.)
>
> In P4 I could decide whether I wanted to encode the beginnings and
> ends of letters as <opener>s and <closer>s or not. Now I have to use
> <opener> and <closer> if I have a <signed> or a <salute> in the  
> "wrong"
> end of the letter.
> Can anyone explain why this was altered from P4 to P5? I would
> appreciate it very much!
> Kind regards, Hilde :-)