[tei-council] Minor error in Guidelines

[Rebecca Welzenbach]

I would certainly find it valuable!

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Kevin Hawkins
<kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info> wrote:
> I'm wondering whether others feel that we should add a bit to
>
> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw20.xml
>
> or perhaps more properly
>
> P5/Source/Guidelines/en/style-guide.txt
>
> stating this distinction.  There might be other things that those who
> have been editing the Guidelines keep in mind but haven't written down
> for the rest of us.
>
> Such a passage would be similar to this, which I found in tcw20 and is
> similarly prescriptive about encoding practice:
>
> ###
>
> In most chapters, the two character code is also used as a prefix for
> the @xml:id values given to each <div> element. Note that every <div>
> element carries an @xml:id value, whether or not it is actually
> referenced explicitly elewhere in the Guidelines.
>
> ###
>
> Is this worthwhile, or would none of us ever remember to consult this
> anyway?
>
> --K.
>
> On 1/13/12 11:19 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> 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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