[tei-council] working with translation

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Wed Oct 30 12:03:26 EDT 2013


On 30/10/13 15:41, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>> to make life miserable for translators:
>>
>> -  <desc>contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an
>> -        author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.</desc>
>> +  <desc versionDate="2013-04-13" xml:lang="en">contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the source
>> +  text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.</desc>

I must protest. This particular  change reflects a decision over which 
huge numbers of innocent bits were spilt, and which still comes back to 
bite us at regular intervals. It is not a trivial change, even though it 
involves only one word!






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