[tei-council] sluice your glosses

[Kevin Hawkins]

Since we go around telling people that you shouldn't read element names 
literally -- for example, that a <monogr> can include things that you 
don't think of as a "monograph" and that <msDesc> can be used to 
describe early printed books, not just handwritten manuscripts -- it 
seems to me that doing away with <gloss> in element specs, as Lou and 
Sebastian suggest, would be in line with what we say.

Lou said in his message "Otherwise we'll never finish" [if we don't do 
this], though I'm not sure what he means.

--Kevin

On 2/27/13 5:53 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> As an odd implemntor (in both senses), I would much welcome the death of <gloss>. It adds a layer of pain, and its advantage minimal. If yu need a gloss, make it art of desc prose. I would be quite surprised if there were many mourners at the funeral. Just a few stifled  sobs, and a stiff bow to the coffin, and send it on its way.
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> Carved in stone on my iPad
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