[tei-council] Bug 506: examples for @corresp

[Martin Holmes]

On 13-12-20 12:11 PM, Fabio Ciotti wrote:
>> How about this one from the text of the Guidelines:
>>
>> <http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/DR.html#DRSIM>
>
> Mhhh, this seems a perfect case for @sync.

You're absolutely right. That example should be re-encoded with @synch.
>
> I prefer the rhyme example, but I agree it is rather complex and
> technical... (and to be honest I think it is not completely correct to
> state that the rhymes words in the third, forth etc sestines
> correspond only the those in the first, and not to each other...).

Agreed. <link>s would be better for this sort of multiple 
correspondence, probably.

> What about this coreference encoding example (from Wuthering Heights
> on TBE)? In know it's not an example of a very liberal usage of
> @corresp, but since it includes possessive adjectives the coreferences
> cannot be properly substituted each other.

They do really look interchangeable, though; I'd hoped for something 
more unambiguously non-interchangeable.

Cheers,
Martin

>
> <p>For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months,
> <name xml:id="lint">Mrs. Linton</name> encountered and conquered the
> worst shock of what was denominated a brain fever. No mother could
> have nursed an only child more devotedly than Edgar tended <rs corresp
> ="#lint">her</rs>. Day and night he was watching, and patiently
> enduring all the annoyances that irritable nerves and a shaken reason
> could inflict: and, though Kenneth remarked that what he saved from
> the grave would only recompense his care by forming the source of
> constant future anxiety — in fact, that his health and strength were
> being sacrificed to preserve a mere ruin of humanity — he knew no
> limits in gratitude and joy, when <name corresp
> ="#lint">Catherine</name>'s life was declared out of danger; and hour
> after hour he would sit beside <rs corresp ="#lint">her</rs>, tracing
> the gradual return to bodily health, and flattering his too sanguine
> hopes with the illusion that <rs corresp ="#lint">her</rs> mind would
> settle back to its right balance also, and <rs corresp
> ="#lint">she</rs> would soon be entirely her former self.</p>
> .
>

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