[tei-council] list/@type example

[Kevin Hawkins]

Well, a computer doesn't necessarily know that the labels "(1)" and 
"(2)" indicate order.  In order to classify lists with various labeling 
systems, such as "(1)", "1)", "a.", "i.", and many others, as all being 
ordered, you might want to use @type.

--K.

On 4/22/2013 11:22 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing the conversion of list/@type to @rend, and came across this
> rather odd example from the CO chapter (full quote below):
>
> <list rend="runon" type="ordered">
>         <label>(1)</label>
>         <item>My first rough manuscript, without any
> intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
>         <label>(2)</label>
>         <item>Not a sheet has been seen by any human
> eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
> the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
>      </list></egXML>
>
> (There are two of these.)
>
> I contend that @type="ordered" is pointless here, because the numbering
> is supplied in any case by the<label>, so I propose to remove it. All
> who disagree please say nay loudly and soon; silence = assent.
>
> Full quote:
>
> <p>Each distinct item in the list should be encoded as a distinct
> <gi>item</gi>  element.  If the numbering or other identification for the
> items in a list is unremarkable and may be reconstructed by any
> processing program, no enumerator need be specified.  If however an
> enumerator is retained in the encoded text, it may be supplied either by
> using the<att>n</att>  attribute on the<gi>item</gi>  element, or by
> using a<gi>label</gi>  element.  The following examples are thus
> equivalent:
> <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" source="#GibAut">I will
> add two facts, which have seldom occurred in
> the composition of six, or even five quartos.
> <list rend="runon" type="ordered">
>         <label>(1)</label>
>         <item>My first rough manuscript, without any
> intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
>         <label>(2)</label>
>         <item>Not a sheet has been seen by any human
> eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
> the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
>      </list></egXML>
> <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"  source="#GibAut">I will
> add two facts, which have seldom occurred in
> the composition of six, or even five quartos.
> <list rend="runon" type="ordered">
>         <item n="1">My first rough manuscript, without any
> intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
>         <item n="2">Not a sheet has been seen by any human
> eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
> the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
>      </list></egXML>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin