[tei-council] floatingDiv

[Lou Burnard]

I think the basic point is well made, but I think it could be more 
clearly expressed. I started trying to do that, but found I couldnt edit 
the google doc. So I made a copy and edited that as follows:


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The TEI Technical Council discussed the <floatingDiv> proposal 
http://purl.org/tei/fr/3504690 at its last face to face meeting. After 
much wide ranging discussion and many examples by one of the submitters 
of the proposal (Paul Schaffner), the general consensus which emerged 
was that the examples presented could be dealt with by various other 
existing means. It was felt that that the need to use floatingText/body 
did not present ta significant encoding burden for the textual phenomena 
discussed. Council also noted that the specific case of drama could now 
be handled by the <spGrp>. Council found it hard to identify a distinct 
use case where <floatingDiv> would be more appropriate than (or 
distinguishable from) <floatingText> element. This may also be because 
the prose describing <floatingText> has been relaxed from its first 
inception in P5 ver 1.0.0 and also its relationship with quote clarified.

The TEI Technical Council is willing to continue to consider this matter 
but requires:

     A clear categorisation of how to distinguish between <floatingText> 
and the proposed <floatingDiv>
     More examples of proposed <floatingDiv> candidates which are not 
adequately marked up using either <floatingText> or <spGrp>


Council requests that any further rremarks concerning the proposed 
<floatingDiv> element  be added to the http://purl.org/tei/fr/3504690 
SourceForge ticket for ease of discussion.


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On 25/07/12 09:31, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> seems fine to me
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