[tei-council] Front and titlePage

[James Cummings]

On 31/01/13 14:28, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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.

That is the justification that I thought would appear -- It can 
appear in more than one of the things that are described at that 
top level.  Another approach of course is to have a section which 
includes all three of these things. i.e.:

- Front and Back Matter
   -- Front
   -- Back
   -- Title Pages
   -- Other things appearing in front/back

or something.

I'm not making a strong case for it, so I didn't file a bug 
report or anything, was just sort of musing aloud in case anyone 
else had found it odd (and martin appears to fall into that 
category.  Maybe we're just the strange ones though.

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

What society considers odd (and ODD?) changes over time.

-James

>
> 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
>>>
>


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