[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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