[tei-council] Front and titlePage

[Lou Burnard]

I suspect I was responsible for the decision to separate title pages out 
from other bits of front and back matter way back in the middle ages. 
The rationale was that titlepages can appear in either front or back 
matter, so putting a section devoted to them in one devoted to either 
would be wrong. And of course they have a lot of specialised 
subcomponents which dont appear in either front or back otherwise.

I don't think anyone has ever regarded this as particularly odd, till now.

On 31/01/13 13:48, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I vote for nesting here. I've actually stumbled over that oddity myself.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 13-01-31 02:51 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> Hiya TEI Technical Council,
>>
>> I've been reading through the Default Text Structure chapter and
>> a minor organisational question jumped out at me.  If you look at
>> the table of contents of DS:
>> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/DS.html, why
>> is section 4.6 (title pages) not nested inside the section 4.5
>> (front matter)?  Is it that title pages are so important that
>> they deserve a equal footing with front and back even though
>> lower in the XML hierarchy?
>>
>> For what it is worth, this separation out as a division dates
>> from at least P2.
>>
>> Just thought I'd ask as any principle of when something should be
>> a separate section or nested.
>>
>> -James
>>