[tei-council] @rows="0", @cols="0"?

Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Fri Feb 1 17:10:12 EST 2013


On 2/1/2013 5:00 PM, Paul F. Schaffner wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>> Can anyone think of a scenario in which it would be reasonable to have:
>>
>> <row cols="0">  or<cell rows="0">?
>
> This sounds like a trick question but I'll play along.
>
> My answer is "No."

I threw this out there to my gang as some were heading out the door for 
the weekend.  We decided that a row spanning no columns or a cell 
spanning no rows is a Zen koan akin to the sound of one hand clapping.

While we're at it, what about <row rows="0"> and <cell cols="0">?

K.


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