[tei-council] @calendar and @datingMethod

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-05-20 01:54 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> I've had a quick look and think this looks good, though I think it might
> make clearer that the custom-xxx attributes provide a (non-standard)
> normalized form, perhaps by complementing same with the standard
> normalised equivalent.

I did think about this, and the precise date used in one of the examples 
would make a good basis for this; we could add @when with the 
corresponding Gregorian or proleptic Gregorian date. This is most 
practical with precise dates; when you're dealing with years, then a 
single Julian year has to be turned into a date-range in Gregorian 
because the beginnings of years don't align.

When I get a chance I'll add another para to the bottom introducing the 
@when to the same example, and explaining it.

> In the meantime I've taken on myself the other action suggested by the
> ticket -- a sweep through the <att> elements in P5 to see if there are
> any other rogues. I found about twenty <att> elements which don't
> correspond with  a TEI:attDef/@ident : the vast majority are simple
> cases where a @scheme attribute has been omitted, or where the attribute
> name has been translated into Spanish for some reason. I'll fix them up
> shortly.

Great. We should probably do this as part of the Test build, really. But 
it's conceivable that we might use <att> or <gi> to talk about things 
from other namespaces.

Cheers,
Martin

>    On 20/05/14 18:57, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This ticket:
>>
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/668/>
>>
>> raises the need for a proper explanation of the usage and differences
>> between @calendar and @datingMethod. I've added a short section to the
>> Names and Dates chapter to cover this:
>>
>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5-Documentation/ws/Guidelines-web/en/html/ND.html#NDDATECUSTOM>
>>
>> along with a link to it from the Calendar Description section of the
>> header chapter:
>>
>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5-Documentation/ws/Guidelines-web/en/html/HD.html#HD44>
>>
>> Please read through the section and see if it makes sense to you, report
>> any typos, etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
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