[tei-council] <punctuation>

[Gabriel Bodard]

(1) sounds very reasonable to me (as Kevin has just noted on the ticket 
too). (2) sounds good too. I can't think of anything else to add.

+1

On 2013-06-20 14:40, Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am implementing http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/377.
> We agreed in Oxford to define a new element, <punctuation>, which
> would be part of the <encodingDesc>, and allow an encoder to document
> how they have treated a source text's punctuation marks in their TEI
> document.
>
> This element is meant to work something like <quotation>, but be more
> broadly applicable for bits of punctuation other than quotation marks.
> I'm about ready to try adding the new element spec (and seeing if
> anything breaks!). However, I want to check on a couple of things:
>
> 1) Originally, we agreed that this new element should belong to
> model.encodingDescPart
> (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-model.encodingDescPart.html).
> However, it looks to me now like it fits much more sensibly in
> model.editorialDeclPart
> (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-model.editorialDeclPart.html),
> along with <quotation>, <hyphenation>, <normalization>, etc.
>
> Documenting the treatment of punctuation clearly falls under providing
> "details of editorial principles and practices applied during the
> encoding of a text." And I don't think we want <punctuation> floating
> around <encodingDesc> outside of <editorialDecl>.
>
> Do you agree that <punctuation> should instead be a member of
> model.editorialDeclPart, or is there good reason to stick with the
> original proposal to make it a member of model.encodingDescPart?
>
> 2) As well as allowing prose content to describe the project's policy
> for handling punctuation marks, we agreed to add some relevant
> attributes. I propose the following:
>
> @marks : Just like on <quotation>, this would be an optional attribute
> of the dataype data.enumerated, with permitted values of "none",
> "some", or "all" to indicate whether punctuation marks from the source
> text have been retained in the TEI document.
>
> @location: this would be an optional attribute, datatype
> data.enumerated, with permitted values of "internal" or "external" to
> indicate whether retained punctuation marks are captured as content
> within adjacent elements or placed outside of them.
>
> My model here was the use of @location on <variantEncoding>, although
> the usage of "internal" and "external" is not quite consistent between
> these two.
>
> Do these two attributes seem appropriate? Sufficient? Suitably named
> and defined?
>
> Of course, once the spec is in place and not broken I will also add
> prose to 2.3 (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/HD.html#HD5)
> and 3.2 (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#COPU)
> of the Guidelines to describe this change.
>
> Thanks for your advice,
> Becky
>

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