[tei-council] word-dividing

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

We were agreeing, I think. Any way, it's moot now since you have found 
an elegant solution.

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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