[tei-council] Should Roma be doing this?

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 2/6/13 5:32 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I think the core problem here is that we've been using @type on <list>
> for all these years when we should have been using @rend. Doesn't this
> sound more sane?
>
> @rend="bulleted"
> @rend="numbered"
> @rend="simple"

For the third, I think we would want to rename this to 
@rend='unlabelled' since "simple" sounds to me more like a type than a 
way of rendering.

> The only value of @type that really looks like a type to me is "gloss",
> but this is used, as far as I understand it, when there is a <label>
> preceding the <item>, and in that case the presence of <label> is
> sufficient to determine the output appearance.

I think that's right.

> So I would recommend:
>
> 1. Changing our recommendation so that we provide suggested values for
> @rend, not @type.
>
> 2. Adding a suggestion that using @style with CSS will provide a useful
> range of precise options that cover most cases.
>
> 3. Leaving @type on <list>, for backward compatibility, but providing no
> suggested values for it.

Or we could leave the values in place, though indicate deprecation, as i 
did for biblScope at type.

--K.