[tei-council] word-dividing
Lou Burnard
lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jul 2 13:24:25 EDT 2009
Nowhere do we claim that @type="nobreak" is "best practice".
What we *actually* say at present is:
<p>The <att>type</att> attribute may be used to characterize the
line break in any respect, but its most common use is to specify
that the presence of the line break does not imply the end of the
word in which it is embedded. The value <val>nobreak</val> is
recommended for this purpose, but encoders are free to choose
whichever values are appropriate. </p>
I propose at the next release to change
"The value <val>nobreak</val>"
to
"A value such as <val>inWord</val> or <val>noBreak</val>"
Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
> We really shouldn't define the examples as 'best practice' IMO. They
> should not be bad practice, and they can be 'a good practice' but we
> want to restrict claiming normative force to places where we mean it.
>
> Elena Pierazzo wrote:
>
>> Sure we can change things (aren't we in the council precisely for this
>> reason?) but I was wondering the opportunity of suggesting a new value
>> six month (or earlier, if Sebastian can cope) after having introduced
>> it... it doesn't look quite good, does it? In these six months people
>> may have already started to use it, thinking to follow the TEI
>> recommendation, then finding themselves that they are no longer within
>> 'best practice'. Don't know, honestly.
>> E
>>
>>
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