[tei-council] TEI Workgroups

[Kevin Hawkins]

Thanks, Brett.  There was one more typo, which David Sewell caught 
earlier and reported offline.

I'm with Martin Holmes on split infinitives.

Here's the final version for David to put at

http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Workgroups/index.xml

--K.

On 4/19/2011 8:40 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> On 11-04-19 04:25 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> no one objects to the split imfinitive in the first sentence?
>
> I don't think anyone cares about split infinitives any more. And the
> ugliness of the workarounds makes them worse than the split:
>
> "The main purpose of a TEI Workgroup is formally to recommend extensions
> or modifications to the TEI Guidelines. "
>
> Ugh.
>
>> to my simple mind the difference between a work group and a sig is
>> that the former has an explicit objective, described in a written
>> charter, which it is supposed to do, and then disband.
>>
>> a sig otoh exists as long as it wants tp go on finding things to talk
>> about
>
> Agreed on that.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>>
>> from the pad
>>
>>
>> On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:32, "Brett
>> Barney"<bbarney2 at unlnotes.unl.edu<mailto:bbarney2 at unlnotes.unl.edu>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Kevin and all,
>>
>> I noticed a couple of what I took to be typos, one inherited from the
>> existing page and one in the new prose:
>>
>> 1) "Workgroups are not the only mechanism for proposing extensions of
>> modifications to the Guidelines" should read "Workgroups are not the
>> only mechanism for proposing extensions or modifications to the
>> Guidelines"
>>
>> 2) "The following workgroups are currently under active under the
>> aegis . . . " should read "The following workgroups are currently
>> active under the aegis . . ."
>>
>> The attached file incorporates these changes, under the questionable
>> assumption that I've interpreted aright.
>>
>> Best regards, Brett
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