[tei-council] divliminality

[Paul Schaffner]

Yep, on both counts. And the exercise was intended not simply
to allow divergent practices that we knew about, but to discover
divergent practices that we didn't. pfs

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014, at 8:10, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> 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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