[tei-council] s vs seg, ticket 578

[Kevin Hawkins]

Members of tei-council may be wondering where this has become 
problematic.  I invite you to see:

http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/578/

which I filed in the course of copyediting an article for the Journal of 
the Text Encoding Initiative, where the author mentioned being confused 
about this.

--K.

On 6/5/13 3:51 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> The reason we have both <s> and <seg> is that an eminent corpus linguist
> (now sadly deceased) opined very strongly that there should be a TEI
> element which enabled users to divide a text  into smaller units (as is
> commonly done in many corpora) which did not nest and which tessellated
> the text completely. That element is <s>. It was pointed out at the time
> that a more general kind of segment which could self nest and which was
> not required to tesselate the entire text would also be very useful.
> That element is <seg>. I don't understand why this distinction , which
> is pretty clearly stated in the Guidelines (see eg
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/AI.html#AILCW) ,
> seems to have become
> problematic all of a sudden. Do people think the distinction is not
> useful? Do we want to abolish one or other of these elements? (no point
> in keeping both if they are to be used in the same way)? Do we want to
> swop the names over? Obviously <s> is a special case of <seg>,
> so we could remove it, but that seems a bit unkind.
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