[tei-council] sluice your glosses

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 28 Feb 2013, at 12:34, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> On 28/02/13 12:25, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> I incline to think that lou is problematising this. Give an element or attribute a <desc> field,
>> and let the ODD author put in there whatever is needed to explain it to the user. if
>> that involves prefixing it "(line break)", that's fine by me.
>> 
> 
> There is a distinction between explaining the rationale for a name, and describing the ways that the thing named should be used.

there is indeed. and getting into it is called "problematisation" in the trade :-}

>  And isn't it a good idea to enforce some discipline about always putting the expansion in parens at the start?

to be honest, no. its over-prescriptive.

> 
>> Norm Walsh doesn't feel the need at http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/lhs.html
>> to be explicit that "lhs" stands for left hand side", it is better done in his "The left-hand side of an EBNF production"
>> 
> 
> ... which means that when you translate "the left hand side of an EBNF production" into French you are completely stumped as to why this thing is called "lhs"
> 
thats up the French translator to decide whether or not the user needs to know the derivation of the tag name.

hey, i sound like Lou, promoting freedom for the authors to do what they want!

> (a) adding more waffle into the existing <gloss>es as and when someone says they are puzzled by their meanings
> (b) removing all existing <gloss>es entirely
> (c) merging existing <gloss>es into their sibling <desc>s
> (d) restricting  <gloss>es to expansions and moving any useful waffle elsewhere?
> 


( c ), probably zapping some along the way.
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