[tei-council] TEI Guidelines display

[Lou Burnard]

Sure. Actually, I was going to Just Do It...

On 30/10/12 13:28, James Cummings wrote:
> There seems to be a consensus of at least Lou, me, Sebastian and
> Becky.
>
> Lou: I'm running off to a meeting, if you get a chance can you
> put in a ticket and assign it to me?
>
> -James
>
> On 30/10/12 13:03, Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
>> I agree that offering the expansion of the tag name in the gloss, in
>> addition to a translation, makes a lot of sense. As others have already
>> said, even if we want to think of the tag names as language independent
>> tokens they really are derived from words, almost always English, and
>> contain meaningful patterns (-grp, -list, -stmt, -decl, etc.) that should
>> be laid bare. It is reasonable (and seems only fair) to offer the same
>> expansions in the English and translated versions of the Guidelines.
>>
>> This reminds me of learning the periodic table of elements in school. I
>> wish the teachers had explained the roots of Au, Ag, Pb, etc., rather than
>> just telling us we had to memorize them and making up arbitrary mnemonic
>> devices. Even if you don't know the language, if there is a
>> connection/explanation for the tag name that is perfectly simple and
>> sensible, it's better to offer it than not to.
>>
>> I also agree that the gloss for <secFol> ought to give the expansion
>> "secundo folio," not "second folio."
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Sebastian Rahtz <
>> sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> i am not so sanguine that the <gloss> always expands the abbreviation in
>>> that neat way.
>>> I agree, it might improve things in some situations.
>>>
>>> why not try it and see?
>>>
>>>
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