[tei-council] backtrack on change to <char>?

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 18 Nov 2009, at 10:35, Peter Boot wrote:

> Sebastian Rahtz schreef:
>> We discussed the use of <graphic> inside <char> as being inadequate, and therefore substituted <figure> instead as being richer. All well and good. However, the side effect is to make a module dependency between "gaiji" and "figures", as the <char> thing will not do its job unless "figures" is loaded. I don't think this is in the spirit of TEI design so far, which usually dictates that any element depended on by two modules should be in the core.
> 
> What is the other module that depends on figure?
sorry, I expressed that wrongly. I meant

"any element depended on by a non-core modules should be in the core."

> Maybe the best solution, but then perhaps Roma should warn people that 
> select gaiji and not figures that they may be building something 
> inconsistent.
> 

but Roma has no way of knowing that, as we have no formal record 
of the dependency.

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