[tei-council] FR 3106829 on <quote> and <floatingText>

[Kevin Hawkins]

This text is becoming clearer with each iteration.  How about this, 
which I have just posted as a comment on SF:

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It is important to distinguish the use of <floatingText> and <quote>. 
Whereas the semantics of <quote> imply that its content emanates from 
somewhere external to the current text, <floatingText> does not imply 
this. The <floatingText> element is simply used whenever the richer 
content model it provides is required to support mark up of a text or 
part of a text which presented as a discrete inclusion within the text. 
Such an "inclusion" might consist of a text that is perceived as 
external to the document, such as a letter, enclosure, or attachment, 
but it might equally well be a text that is not external to the 
document, such as the text of a "musical number" that is clearly set off 
from its surrounding text in the libretto of an opera.

The two elements may be used in combination: a <floatingText> may appear 
within a <quote> (when a text with rich internal structure is quoted at 
length), and <floatingText> may also include one or more <quote> 
elements as part of its own structure, just like any text.

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If there are any objections, please voice them in the next week.

On 4/17/11 7:40 PM, Martin Mueller wrote:
> My point was that the examples suggest a narrower range for<floatingText>
> than the formal definition. That is true of "enclosure," "attachment" or
> "embedded story." Many users will pay more attention to the examples than
> to the definition. So if we want to suggest that "coming from the outside"
> is not a necessary condition of<floatingText>, there should be at least
> one example  of<floatingText>  that clearly does not come from the
> outside, emanates from somewhere else, or whatever other phrase has been
> used.
>
> To use Laurent's language, I'm quite happy with the notion that
> floatingText is the appropriate element for  "subtexts that whose internal
> structure not match that of the encompassing document," "raisins in the
> oatmeal" as Paul Schaffner calls it. But given that definition we
> shouldn't muddy the water with a list of examples all of which are
> "external" in one way or another. In order to make that point crystal
> clear I'd suggest one further revision of the paragraph and say something
> like:
>
> The<floatingText>  element is simply used whenever the richer content
> model it provides is required to support mark up of a text or part of a
> text which presented as a discrete inclusion within the text. Such an
> "inclusion" might consist of a text that is perceived as external to the
> document, such as a letter, enclosure, or attachment. But it might equally
> well
> be the text of a "musical number" that is clearly set off from its
> surrounding text in
> the libretto of an opera but is equally clearly not perceived as external
> to the document.