[tei-council] [Fwd: Library SIG recommendations]

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Dan O'Donnell wrote:

> Any suggests for how to handle them? A red-light, yellow-light, 
> green-light system? A "look em over and object" system?

in the circumstances, I suggest the latter will do.
Most of the prose changes are not really
our business to approve or disapprove much.


> * Documentation on "soft" vs. "hard" hyphens: it was pointed out that
> though the Tite docs required that vendors maintain the difference
> between these in transcriptions, it didn't specify *how* to do so. The
> suggestion was to use the SOFT HYPHEN character (U+00AD) to transcribe
> soft hyphens, and the Western-keyboard default hyphen, the
> HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D), for hard hyphens. (This entails no change to
> the schemaSpec.)

I am surprised keyboarding firms can tell
the difference between hard and soft, but the recommendation
seems plausible.


> * Necessity of the teiHeader
I'm easy. if they want to deliver just a <text>, let them.
I think thats better than a <text> wrapped in a <TEI>. Then
its just an incomplete document.


> * Inclusion of the g element
I go with Perry that its unlikely people will use it


> Finally, there were some suggestions about the presentation of the ODD
> documentation on the TEI website. Elements that seem to be in need of
> special rendering are:
>     * term
>     * att
>     * docTitle/titlePart (currently, where there is more than one
> titlePart, the contents of each seem to be combined, w/o spaces)

I'll have a look at these, if its my stylesheets. this is
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-exemplars/html/tei_tite.doc.html
we're talking about, I assume?
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Sebastian Rahtz
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