[tei-council] Another question....

[Elena Pierazzo]

> I think this is anomalous. Can anyone come up with a specific use case where a
> <seg> should need to include things that can appear between paragraphs? note
> that it cannot currently contain paragraphs!
>   
I honestly can't.
>> I would definitely avoid breaking this and not impose too many  
>> constraints at the level of the guidelines. The flexibility we have at  
>> present should be counterbalanced by annotation projects defining  
>> precise encoding manuals, depending on the kind of precision and depth  
>> they want to acheive. We had a long discussion on what <pc> should be  
>> equivalent to, namely <w> or <c> and I am still not sure that we  
>> should restrain to <w>.
>>     
I agree, also because we cannot say what <c/> is used for -- perhaps 
some unconventional glyphs. In some manuscripts, for instance, there are 
signs to mark the beginning of paragraphs or verses, that someone would 
prefer to keep outside the <phr/> (which is a linguistic phrase). Or it 
can be used to mark functional marks (carets, stars, etc.) for marginal 
notes, glosses, etc.

Elena

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