[tei-council] Standard form for elementSpec/desc

[Lou Burnard]

On 26/12/12 21:36, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Proofing my birthday chapter (#8), I've come across something which I
> recall bothering me in the past. Most element descriptions take the form
> of verb phrases:
>
> [<scriptStmt>] contains a citation giving details of the script used for
> a spoken text.
>
> Others are in the form of noun phrases:
>
> [<recording>] details of an audio or video recording event
> used as the source of a spoken text, either directly or from
> a public broadcast.

The second example is erroneous. There used to be a house style rule 
which explicitly said that the description should follow the pattern of 
the first one, i.e. should contain a verb phrase, but I don't recall 
when or why it disappeared.  For the reasons Martin points out, it 
should definitely come back.