[tei-council] More questions on tcw21

[Martin Holmes]

On 11-08-23 05:10 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Thanks for the response so far to my posting yesterday about the Big
> Questions.  Here, as promised, are some more questions...
>
> 1. transcription units: we propose using<line>  <ab>  or<seg>. What
> guidelines should we offer about when to choose which, beyond the
> following:
>     -<seg>  can be used within the other two to delimit any kind of unit
>     -<line>  implies a topographic line of some kind
>     -<ab>  implies any kind of block, possibly but not necessarily
> containing multiple<line>s

I think we would need to clarify what it could possibly mean to have a 
block that does not contain lines. I don't really understand that 
myself, unless we're referring to edge-cases such as text written in a 
spiral or some other shape which doesn't naturally have line-breaks.

> 2. discussion of spanTo needs expansion. Some more real examples would
> help.
>
> 3. Should<metaMark>  possibly have a<desc>  child to describe it
> rather than relying on brief characterisation as attribute values?

Yes.

> 4. The graphics included should all have proper citation
> information. Do we want so many? Can we find better (clearer) ones?

I'd say more rather than fewer graphics; they're the clearest way to 
illustrate what we mean. The fact that they're not all very clear is a 
realistic representation of the nature of the texts that this proposal 
deals with; by nature they're messy. Perhaps we could process the 
existing graphics to highlight the precise points of interest for any 
given point, and fade out the rest, to aid the reader.

Cheers,
Martin

> _______________________________________________
> tei-council mailing list
> tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> http://lists.village.Virginia.EDU/mailman/listinfo/tei-council
>
> PLEASE NOTE: postings to this list are publicly archived