[tei-council] floatingDiv

[James Cummings]

On 25/07/12 13:56, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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:

That's strange... it is shared and world editable, honest.

I'll try to merge in your changes.

-James
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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
>> --
>> Sebastian Rahtz
>
>
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>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
>>
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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
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