[tei-council] Use of "below" and "above" in Guidelines prose

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Wed Dec 26 17:29:45 EST 2012


I think this sort of phrasing:

"...see sections 15.2.3 The Setting Description and 15.2.2 The 
Participant Description below." (from Chapter 8)

is confusing, given that the Guidelines are now almost universally read 
in their modular online format. In Chapter 8, "below" suggests to me 
that the relevant sections will be found within the current page 
somewhere; actually, they're in a different chapter, which is a 
different page.

"Below" and "above" still make sense in the context of the one-document 
PDF, but there also the sections referred to would be linked directly, 
so finding them is not an issue.

Absent loud protestations, I'm going to remove "below" from the sentence 
above, and elsewhere in the chapter I'm proofing (except where it points 
to a location which actually is in that chapter).

Cheers,
Martin


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