[tei-council] Attributes without examples

Paul F. Schaffner PFSchaffner at umich.edu
Mon Aug 13 10:23:42 EDT 2012


On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Kevin Hawkins wrote:

> Besides struggling to find times for the other things I've agreed to do,
> my main problem is that I have no corpus of encoded literature to
> consult to find real examples.  So I would be creating fake ones.  While
> that's okay for some attributes, for many it's painfully obvious if it's
> faked.

It is possible, of course, that some of the more obscure attributes
are used by .. no one (or used correctly by no one!).

There are a few common ones in there, however, including a few for which
I have lots of examples (mainly the three table atts, @cols, @rows, and
@role), so I grabbed those.

pfs



>
> Since James asked for other suggestions, what if we put out a call to
> the wider community for examples?  We could create a column in the wiki
> for the examples, filling in <pre> or <code> or whatever tag is needed
> so that people don't need to escape angle brackets before pasting.  And
> then people can drop in some and we can choose the best to insert into
> SourceForge
>
> --K.
>
> On 8/12/12 3:16 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> One of the things that Kevin reminded me of recently was that we
>> still have lots of attributes without examples:
>>
>> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/AttsWithoutEgs
>>
>> I'm as guilty as the others who have not signed up to provide
>> some, but will try to do so in the next week or two.  Any other
>> suggestions? Can everyone sign up to provide some examples?
>>
>> -James
>>
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