[tei-council] FR 2862151: allow certainty in gap and space

[O'Donnell, Dan]

As always, I would ask whether there is a generalisable principle or 
process here? Are we actually rethinking the semantics of glossLike? 
What other parallel situations are there?

-dan

P.S. You're not allowed to characterise your own tickets as sensible ;)

James Cummings wrote:
> Thinking about allowing desc on currently empty elements....reminds me 
> of this highly sensible icket:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=644062&aid=2812295&group_id=106328 
>
>
> The argument being you have plenty of places one needs to use graphic, 
> and specifically not figure, but need to provide the equivalent of 
> html:img/@alt text for the graphic.
>
> Solution: add graphic to model.glossLike
>
> -James
>
> O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
>> In fact I love it.
>>
>> Laurent Romary wrote:
>>> If no strong voice again, we could ask the editorial support group 
>>> in  Oxford to implement...
>>>
>>> Le 11 févr. 10 à 17:31, Dot Porter a écrit :
>>>
>>>  
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>> Me too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> Elena Pierazzo wrote:
>>>>>      
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Elena
>>>>>> On 11 Feb 2010, at 14:12, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>> Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> Space is not currently in model.glossLike, but I would see no  
>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>> with it being added there.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any objections?
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> This seems entirely reasonable to me. If I am providing a
>>>>>>> <space/> element I can currently say how big the space is, but
>>>>>>> have no way to describe the nature of the space or its reason for
>>>>>>> existence without employing various other methods.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <space quantity="7" unit="minims"><desc>Space left for
>>>>>>> illuminated initial which was never added.</desc></space>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -James
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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