[tei-council] word-dividing

[David Sewell]

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Lou Burnard wrote:

> 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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