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

[Kevin Hawkins]

I'll give a "+1" in support of Martin, not to clutter everyone's inboxes 
but to counter the weak protests.  --Kevin

On 12/26/2012 5:29 PM, Martin Holmes 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, 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