[tei-council] Drafts of new Guidelines sections

[Martin Holmes]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a draft of new material for the Front Matter 
section VI, "Languages and Character Sets", which involves adding two 
new sections, adding to the title, and including some new items in the 
bibliography. I want to bring the first draft of these changes to the 
Council meeting in November.

I'm wondering what the best way to do this would be. I could introduce 
all the changes directly into the Guidelines code, and let everyone have 
at them in-place, but that's probably not appropriate because Council 
will likely want substantial edits so they may not be ready for the 
release that follows rapidly on the November Council meeting. At the 
same time, I do want to present them in the context of the existing 
Guidelines so the appearance and integration is clear, for me and for 
everyone else. The alternative would be to work on a local copy which I 
can build into a Guidelines version which has the changes, and then 
merge them back into trunk by manual diffing once everyone is happy. 
Which would you recommend? Lou, when you did the very substantial 
changes for the genetic editing module, how did you go about it?

I realize this is exactly the sort of situation git is designed for 
(fork and merge later). I generally argue against git because it's too 
complicated for our needs, so I appreciate the irony here, but this is 
the first time since I've been on Council I've found myself wanting this 
functionality; it doesn't happen often.

On a related issue: I've obtained one set of permissions for the use of 
a document image, I have another request under consideration, and more 
will probably come along by the time I've finished. We've typically 
acknowledged this sort of thing with an inline note in the Guidelines 
text, like this from PH:

<note place="bottom">The image is taken from the collection at <ptr
target="http://ancilla.unice.fr/Illustr.html"/>, and was digitized from 
a copy in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, by whose kind permission 
it is included here.</note>

but presumably the original letters or emails are stored somewhere to 
back up the acknowledgements. Where would that be?

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