[tei-council] TEI P5 1.9.0

[Lou Burnard]

On 16/02/11 17:45, Piotr Bański wrote:

> 1. "more compromises and alternatives within the encoding scheme may be
> required in future"
>
> "in the future" seems more popular, but I wouldn't touch the sentence.
>

yes, "in the future" is to be preferred (unless there is a following 
noun, of course!)


>
> 2. "to account for the wide variety of linguistic context"
>
> "contexts" would sound more natural to me, I'd probably be tempted to
> add the "s" just to avoid tickets from people pointing it out as a
> mistake. Unless "context" is heavily used as uncountable in other places
> in the Guidelines.
>

also agreed

>
> 3. "we have tried to retain the original typographic appearance of the
> example as well as presenting a suggested encoding for it."
>
> Either align the forms (presenting -->  (to) present) or do something
> about the "as well as" (-->  "while" AND/OR "at the same time" ?).
>

this one doesnt worry me much


but i miust say think there are maybe more substantial issues that need 
discussion in this chapter ... e.g. the case of pVar pRef which we 
bounced around here a few weeks ago