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

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 3 07:37:18 EST 2013


On 26 Dec 2012, at 22:29, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> 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

For what its worth, I have no problem myself in mentally translating the old meanings
of "above" and "below" into their digital equivalents. But  I guess it does no harm
in simplifying the prose in the way you suggest.
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