[tei-council] Location of <app>s for external apparatus

[James Cummings]

On 15/06/12 09:24, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> On 15 Jun 2012, at 09:18, James Cummings wrote:
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>> If they are<app>s with<rdg>s then you *can* see them in one of
>> the source texts (unless they contain<supplied>).
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> yes, but they are out of place. the readings are not in with the rest
> of the text.

Erm, isn't that the definition of *stand off*? ;-)

>> Yes, and those appear in manuscripts as real text. They should be
>> in the body (ok, arguably 'back') of the TEI file, not in
>> metadata about the file.
> agreed, they are not metadata, they are standoff readings. a bit like standoff notes,
> and we dont have a natural home for them either, imho.

Yes, and in a digitally-born edition, I would say that <back> 
makes a natural home for such appendices of textual information.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev
Oxford University Computing Services
University of Oxford