[tei-council] reminder

[Laurent Romary]

I would see this as an idea to pursue mself: David, Dan or Gaby, could  
you put an SF ticket?
Cheers,
Laurent

Le 28 juin 09 à 08:46, O'Donnell, Dan a écrit :

> 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.
>
> -----------
> Daniel O'Donnell
> University of Lethbridge
> (From my mobile telephone)
>
> --- original message ---
> 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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