[tei-council] divliminality

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 29 Dec 2013, at 22:48, Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info> wrote:

> In April 2012 we decided to have for a crowdsourced encoding exercise to 
> see how people treat things that occur at the start and end of divs, 
> which we hoped would help us resolve various tickets relating to these 
> elements.  However, in November in Oxford we decided to go back to 
> trying to resolve these internally, and I think we made some progress. 
> Did we in fact solve all of them and decide that we don't need to do 
> this crowdsourced encoding exercise after all?

The Oxford agreement just patched things up. It didn’t resolve the 
rift in the deep magic, which is that we don’t really have a consistent
view of the signed/closer/opener things. We just allowed the encoder
to use them any which way they want.

Yes, this is worth working out one day. But I fear it may be a P6
thing, because finding the true  names of things may break a
million documents out there.
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Sebastian Rahtz
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