[tei-council] <notatedMusic> changes required

Thu Jul 7 03:59:27 EDT 2011

On 7 Jul 2011, at 00:04, Martin Holmes wrote:

>> You've made a simple (very understandable) mistake -  you have not actually yet included the elementSpec.
>> I have added&notatedMusic; at the end of the<div>  and now it works as expected. Jolly good!!
> 
> Thanks for that -- I has no idea I needed to do it. I was searching 
> madly for some file in which I was supposed to mention the tag name, and 
> finding nothing.

yes, it obviously isn't made clear  that the TEI Guidelines are
a single giant document, not a framework pointing at element
definitions to include.

> If we do provide examples using e.g. 
> @type="transclude", we'll have to explain exactly what we mean by that, 
> and suggest alternative possible values that don't mean transclusion; 
> and I don't know what they might be.

Fair point.  This is all moot, of course, until we decide to actually
make a new release and the "general public" starts seeing the
new material.

>> 
>> <figure>
>>       <head><label>Ex. 3</label>SCHUBERT: Symphony in B minor.</head>
>> 	<notatedMusic>
>>          <ptr target="example_schubert.xml"/>
>>       </notatedMusic>
>>    </figure>
> 
> I noticed that too, but I wasn't sure what it might be replaced with. 
> Perhaps it should be in a <figDesc>, outside the <head>. What do others 
> think?

I am not sure what the <label> is trying to achieve here. Perhaps, as Laurent
says, its actually an @n.
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