[tei-council] reminder

[David Sewell]

Ticket added.

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:

> 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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