[tei-council] Minor error in Guidelines

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 13 11:19:53 EST 2012


In the Guidelines, as elsewhere,

<ref target="#foo">section foo</ref> means: generate a link to #foo and 
represent it by the text "section foo".

<ptr target="#foo"/> means: generate a link to #foo and represent it by 
whatever text your processor chooses to generate



On 13/01/12 16:17, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Could you clarify what the difference is between using<ref>  and<ptr>
> in the guidelines?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-01-13 01:32 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>
>> On 13 Jan 2012, at 05:01, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>
>>> I've put in a bug report for this:
>>>
>>> <http://purl.org/TEI/BUGS/3473329>
>>>
>>> The basic problem is that in the web view of the Guidelines, figures
>>> within each chapter are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 etc., but in the PDF output,
>>> they're numbered 11.1, 11.2, 11.3…
>>>
>> there are two issues here.
>>
>>     a) the use of dangerous markup like "<ref target="#sleeprs">figure 4 above</ref>", which should be changed into a<ptr>   to avoid this sort of problem
>>     b) the different numbering schemes
>>
>> for the latter, which do we want for the Guidelines? by chapter, or sequential throughout?
>>
>> for the former, I found 3 occurrences of this, and changed them to<ptr>. am testing before committing.
>> --
>> Stormageddon Rahtz
>> Head of Information and Support Group
>> Oxford University Computing Services
>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>
>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
>>
>



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