[tei-council] Hyphenation discussion

Piotr Bański bansp at o2.pl
Mon Jan 24 17:00:22 EST 2011


Lou kindly points out that I misunderstood and that (c) is a proper
subset of (d).

I vote (d), then -- thanks, Lou.

  P.

On 2011-01-24 22:01, Piotr Bański wrote:
> I'm not sure how exclusive (c) and (d) are:
> 
> I like to have @type ready to use, it seems relatively cheap to have and
> very handy sometimes (I yearn for att.typed in gramGrp; gonna pester you
> about that some day). But if @type remains, it would be good to have a
> tight list for @breaking, to indicate clearly that when someone wants to
> say "inWord" (or equivalent), they should go for @breaking, rather than
> devise new values for @type. This means (c). I see some possible merits
> of (d) and I don't have enough experience to say which of the two works
> better on the users. They are not mutually exclusive, are they.
> 
> I'd say (c) followed closely by (d). As in: prefer positive, explicit
> values to loose, schema-external negative hints for the user (though
> there's nothing wrong with having the latter if you also have the
> former, it seems to me).
> 
> Best,
> 
>   Piotr


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