[tei-council] Oddity with Roma

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-11-15 03:27 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> On 15 Nov 2012, at 19:15, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
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>> <http://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/martin/test/PL.xml>
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> yes, this is a problem because of its inheritance from tei_lite. That has the incantation
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>       <classRef key="att.global.facs"/>
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> because it only wants @facs, not the rest of the transcr module.
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> The student has then loaded the "transcr" module on top, thereby asking for
> att.global.facs _again_. As usual, the stylesheets are not very good
> at finding your logical errors.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for fixing it.

>
> Moral: don't base your ODD on Lite, unless you are very sure you understand
> what you are doing.

I wouldn't dream of using Lite myself, but it's the first thing almost 
all my students chose. They were intimidated by both "start from 
nothing" and "start from everything", which both seemed like a lot of 
work, and they looked for something that seemed like it would be useful 
but not overwhelming.

Cheers,
Martin


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Martin Holmes
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