[tei-council] reminder
O'Donnell, Dan
daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca
Sun Jun 28 02:46:30 EDT 2009
If I remember correctly the idea of lb='line beginning' came up in the push to finish P5 and was considered too radical then.
I think line/column/page beginning would be the better terminology myself. But even I think it'd be too much for this revision.
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Daniel O'Donnell
University of Lethbridge
(From my mobile telephone)
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From: "David Sewell" <dsewell at virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: [tei-council] reminder
Date: June 27, 2009
Time: 5:30:38
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> Some suggestions:
>
> (9bis) I suppose it would be a little too controversial to suggest
> changing the expansion of 'lb' to "line begins" rather than line break?
You know, we could probably devote an entire day of a face-to-face
meeting debating this one. (It would affect <pb> and <cb> as well.)
My first reaction was "that's crazy". My immediately following second
reaction was "that's brilliant"--once I realize how powerful a mnemonic
the semantic difference is. If we are being Whorfians, we could call
this renaming the best way to help the TEI community realize that
pb/lb/cb are supposed to mark the beginning of an object rather than the
end or separation between objects. (Something I don't think I realized
until I had been working with TEI for quite a while, and I don't think
I'm alone, judging from threads I remember on TEI-L.)
But we are ambiguous throughout the Guidelines about whether cb/lb/pb
are (1) milestone markers indicating the beginning of something, or (2)
boundary markers separating two objects of the same type.
Not something to tackle before the next point release of P5, I think.
(The Wikipedia article on "Newline" notes a similar confusion over
whether a newline character functions as a separator or a terminator.)
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