[tei-council] Consistency in hyphenation

[Martin Holmes]

I've found another consistency issue here as well, so I've raised a 
ticket for it, and we can look at it after the release:

<https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/582/>

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-06-22 03:54 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> On 13-06-22 01:35 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> On 22/06/13 06:50, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm in a pedantic mood, and I'm noticing that some chapters have the
>>> attributive adjectival phrase:
>>>
>>> 	any TEI-conformant text
>>>
>>> while others have no hyphen:
>>>
>>> 	a TEI conformant document
>>>
>>> I believe we should be consistent, and the hyphenated form is better for
>>> attributive contexts (not necessarily for predicative). So I propose to
>>> add hyphens in these contextsor r
>>
>> we should certainly be consistent : i think the difference between
>> contexts is less important. Would we hyphenate eg "TEI conformance (is a
>> good thing)" too? my feeling is no.
>
> No; the normal convention is that the hyphen appears when the phrase is
> used as an attributive adjective. Compare:
>
> His novel was soon to be rejected.
> His soon-to-be-rejected novel was not worth the paper it was written on.
>
> Or, even more straightforward:
>
> He was a well-known gambler.
> His gambling was well known.
>
> Wikipedia addresses this:
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_modifier#Hyphenation_of_elements>
>
> But it's another case where, because we haven't adopted a specific style
> guide, we're stuck making up the rules as we go along. I could do a
> quick survey of the various styleguides on this.
>
>> I see you've also managed to find and fix numerous typos which have been
>> lurking undetected in MS for an embarassingly long time.... chapeau! as
>> we say en france
>
> I made myself read a chapter I confess I'd never read before, the MS
> Description chapter. We could each do this once in a while, and catch a
> bunch of stuff like this. I'm surprised any of it got past Jens's
> mammoth proofing effort last year, but when there's a large amount of
> Latin and other languages floating about in the text, it's difficult to
> keep your focus.
>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)