[tei-council] word-dividing

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

I think "word-dividing" in this case means "splitting individual words 
atwain" rather than "demarcating their boundaries" ;)

In my edition of Cædmon's Hymn I needed to encode space and lb similarly 
explicitly: i.e. indicating whether it fell within the word or between 
words: the stylesheets (such as they were in those days) handled them 
differently depending on the value of @type (which I'd made universal). 
White space wouldn't have done it for me, because I was reformatting the 
data with and without the word-internal spaces and lines depending on 
the view the user selected.

-dan

Lou Burnard wrote:
> Gabriel BODARD wrote:
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>> Lou Burnard wrote:
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>>>> (9) lb: should we add an example of the usage of 
>>>> lb/type=word-dividing, which currently sits a little uncomfortably in 
>>>> the note. I suggest "Cae<lb type="worddiv"/>sari".
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>>> Don't know what note you're referring to. Don't see the point of the 
>>> @type attribute. Haven't done anything.
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>> This was discussed some months ago, and is the reason @type was allowed 
>> on <lb> in the first place. There is currently a note at the bottom of 
>> LB that says: "The type attribute may be used to characterize the 
>> linebreak in any respect, for example as word-breaking or not." We have 
>> literally thousands of examples of this in EpiDoc files, where words are 
>> not always tagged explicitly and it's the only way we can be sure to 
>> tokenize correctly. I just thought an example would help to clarify the 
>> use-case.
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>> (If people feel strongly that [e.g.] "wordDividing" would be a better 
>> recommended value than "worddiv", I'm happy to make that part of our P5 
>> upgrade script.)
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> I don't mind adding examples, but this one confuses me. Isn't the point 
> that the <lb/> in your example does NOT divide the word ? so both 
> "wordDividing" and "worddiv" seem exactly the opposite of what you want 
> here. How about "nowordbreak" or "nwb"?
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> I know I lost this argument last time, but I still think in practice I'd 
> deal with this by putting in whitespace where the <lb> coincided with a 
> word boundary and leaving  it out where it didn't!
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>> Best,
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>> G
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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University of Lethbridge

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