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

[Kevin Hawkins]

I'd like to caution all of us against loose descriptions of how things 
work.  There are unarticulated assumptions here about whether the source 
document(s) contains a critical apparatus or whether this is supplied de 
novo in the TEI document.  Just want to make sure we're all on the same 
page about the use cases here ...

On 6/15/2012 4:18 AM, James Cummings wrote:
> On 15/06/12 09:09, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Because these<app>s are standoff markup, and the div/ab
>> structure implies (to me) that you can see them in the source text.
>> Or am I wrong, and we're not talking about standoff<app>s?
>
> If they are<app>s with<rdg>s then you *can* see them in one of
> the source texts (unless they contain<supplied>).  This is
> textual information, generally present in a source document, not
> metadata, it does *not* belong in the header, IMHO. A TEI file is
> not the product of a single source. Standoff<app>s are still
> <app>s, and<app>s contain readings from real source texts.
>
>> in that example we're working on from SOAS, James, the
>> set of<app>s is certainly in this category.
>
> 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.
>
> -James
>