[tei-council] <punctuation>

[James Cummings]

On 20/06/13 14:40, Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
> 1) Originally, we agreed that this new element should belong to
> model.encodingDescPart
> 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?

No I think that is a mistake in the minutes or our understanding. 
<punctuation> should definitely go next to things like 
<quotation> and <hyphenation> in editorialDeclPart

> 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.

Seems reasonable.

> @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.

that took me a second to understand, but yes, that makes sense as 
well.

> Do these two attributes seem appropriate? Sufficient? Suitably named
> and defined?

Yes.

> 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.

good.

-James


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