[tei-council] Fwd: TEI TITE question

[Sebastian Rahtz]

This has been raised, but drifted off the agenda in the past.  I am in favour, particularly for sup and sub, because @rend is so hard to use meaningfully, and sup/sub are so seldom semantic. I and b are a bit harder, but dramatically I would vote for them. We could put them in a module call sugar, and add olist and ulist at the same time.

.sebastian

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From: "James Cummings" <James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 12:29
Subject: [tei-council] Fwd: TEI TITE question
To: "TEI Council" <tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu>
Cc: "Martin Mueller" <martinmueller at NORTHWESTERN.EDU>

Hi MartinM,

I'm forwarding this to the council list for open discussion since
that is publicly archived (and so you'll be able to follow the
discussion in the archive).

I'd argue that lb/pb/cb are somehow of a higher structural
category in the effect they have on teh text and our
interpretation of it. Whereas sup/sub/bold/i are merely
phrase-level highlighting.  My worry, I guess, is that if people
have <i>text</i> they are less likely to encode the reason for
the italics and concentrate more on presentational aspects of the
source text rather than their intellectual interpretation.
(Though inside sourceDoc, of course, this admittedly rather
flimsy argument falls down entirely.)  My unexamined reservation,
I suppose, is probably based on the idiom that it is much better
to say what things are than what they look like, and these
convenience syntactic sugar encodings are more about what stuff
looks like than what function they are playing. As I said, a
flimsy argument, but just my initial gut feeling.

What do others think?

-James


-------- Original Message --------
Subject:         TEI TITE question
Date:    Sat, 5 May 2012 23:16:00 +0000
From:    Martin Mueller <martinmueller at northwestern.edu>
To:      James Cummings <James.Cummings at OUCS.OX.AC.UK>



James,

has there ever been a discussion about the convenience features
of TITE (sup, sub, bold, i) becoming parts of the main TEI set,
along the lines of lb or pb being shortcuts for <milestone
unit="line"/>. I can see quite a few arguments in favour of this,
and not really many against it. It might encourage people to be
sloppy in some ways. But M<sup>rs</sup> has something going for
it over M<hi rend="sup">rs</hi>. And there are a lot of those.

MM
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