[tei-council] 3 subst tickets

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Thu Aug 18 07:32:46 EDT 2011


I would personally support this. Anyone seeing a problem with it?
Laurent

Le 18 août 2011 à 13:03, Gabriel Bodard a écrit :

> On 2011-08-17 21:10, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 
>> I'm always inclined to argue against breaking backward-compatibility,
>> but I can live with it if we can demonstrate that [corr orig reg sic
>> unclear app damage restore supplied surplus] have never, or very rarely,
>> been used inside<subst>  in the wild. Has any call gone out to the main
>> list asking about this? I found this post:
> 
> Not yet. This is one of the things I propose (if the Council agrees) we 
> should do. The discussion Martin cites below very much confused me, and 
> nobody else in either Council nor the subst subgroup we convened was 
> able to cast light on what anyone would mean by including sic, corr, reg 
> or orig as direct children of tei:subst.
> 
> I think we can pretty vigorously defend the case that they shouldn't be 
> used. I just want us to survey to see how many people *do* regularly so 
> use them, and would not be in a position to rectify this if we made the 
> change to the schema. Do I have general agreement to send a surveying 
> question to TEI-L?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> G
> 
>> 
>> <http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0907&L=TEI-L&P=R4196>
>> 
>> from Torsten which suggests using<sic>  and<corr>  inside<subst>, and
>> this follow-up:
>> 
>> <http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0907&L=TEI-L&P=R4254>
>> 
>> which supports<orig>  and<reg>. This one from Matthew Driscoll also
>> seems to support<sic>  and<corr>:
>> 
>> <http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1104&L=TEI-L&D=0&P=6829>
>> 
>> although it's arguable he might place them in<choice>  rather than<subst>.
>> 
>> Incidentally, how much of this discussion should take place in the form
>> of comments on the SF tickets, and how much should be on the Council
>> mailing list? I've always been confused about this.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
> 
> 
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