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

Fri Jun 15 04:45:27 EDT 2012

On 15/06/12 20:38, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> On 15 Jun 2012, at 09:32, James Cummings wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
>
> <back>  "contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text"
>
> if you use it as a container for standoff notes and apps, you lose its valuable function
> as a place for appendices which are in normal reading order.
>
> when I typeset a TEI document, I expect to render all of the<back>  using just
> the same techniques as when I render<front>  or<body>. I don't expect
> to render standoff notes and apps there where I meet them, I expect to be
> given a clue that they are standoff.

It would be useful to have a global clue that something is standoff (I 
anticipate a need for it on the SOM group, but we're not reached there 
yet).

Is there one?

cheers
stuart