[tei-council] List types in the Guidelines

Sat Apr 13 06:54:53 EDT 2013

I'm starting my work on lists in the Guidelines. There are lots of 
instances of <list type="gloss"> which really do seem to be gloss lists, 
and I think @type makes sense in this case:

       <head>Releases of the TEI Guidelines</head>
	<list type="gloss">
	  <label>P1</label>
	  <item>1990, C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard</item>
	  <label>P2</label>
	  <item>1992, C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard</item>
	  <label>P3</label>
	  <item>1994, C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard</item>
	  <label>P4</label>
	  <item>2001, Lou Burnard, Syd Bauman, and Steven DeRose</item>
	  <label>P5</label>
	  <item>2007, Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman</item>
	</list>

However, there's this case in FM1 (the introductory note) where "gloss" 
seems just to be an error:

   <p>
   ...meetings were generously hosted by the following institutions:

    <list type="gloss">
     <item>King's College, London (2002)</item>
     <item>Oxford University Computing Services (2003)</item>
     <item>Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Ghent
     (2004)</item>
     [...]
    </list>
   </p>

Clearly, nothing is being glossed here. Can anyone suggest a good reason 
why this case might be "gloss"? Was there a requirement to render this 
particular list in a specific way to match other lists on the page? If 
not, I propose to change it to @rend="simple".

Cheers,
Martin