[tei-council] lite final update -- wot about w?

[stuart yeates]

I agree. A lack of surprises is always a good thing; especially in terms 
of encouraging TEI newbies.

cheers
stuart

On 06/08/12 06:02, Piotr Banski wrote:
> I understand Martin's objections but tend to lean towards a
> user-friendly, not-so-theoretically-supercoherent set of devices for
> Lite. <w> tastes lite. Or, conversely, its lack will litely raise eyebrows.
>
>     P.
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> On 05/08/12 19:59, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Indeed yes, and there is an example showing how to use <seg type="lex">.
>>
>> The counter argument is
>>
>> a) lots of people do tokenisation and it seems sensible to offer a
>> simple solution for that as well as the generic <seg> -- just as we
>> offer both pb and milestone
>>
>> b) why then do we have pc (which is sugar for <seg type="punct"> or
>> something? )
>>
>>
>> <s> is slightly different from <seg>, since it's for end to end
>> segmentation.
>>
>>
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>> On 05/08/12 18:54, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> Perhaps it was omitted because you can use <seg type="word"> (and use
>>> <seg> for all the other bits and pieces in the same way). I see <cl> and
>>> <phr>, for instance, are also missing. Perhaps the oddity here is the
>>> inclusion of <s>?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 12-08-05 05:13 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 5 Aug 2012, at 00:03, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I've just noticed something a bit odd which I missed on my
>>>>> first go round and would like to ask Council's views about. I very
>>>>> vaguely remember someone complaining that Lite does not include <w> --
>>>>> although it does include <seg> <s> and <pc>.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thats a very puzzling omission. it seems like a no-brainer to include it.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sebastian Rahtz
>>>> Director (Research Support) of Academic IT Services
>>>> University of Oxford IT Services
>>>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>>>
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