[tei-council] [tei:bugs] #617 <num> not a part of att.segLike (and thus of att.fragmentable)

[Peter Stadler]

Sounds reasonable.
+1 for rejecting

Am 22.05.2014 um 12:39 schrieb Fabio Ciotti <fabio.ciotti at UNIROMA2.IT>:

> My opinion is to reject the request since:
> 
> 1) the same happens for many phrase level elements with similar
> semantic functions as <date> or <measure> etc. For simmetry we should
> change them all
> 2) <w> is (should) be used to carry morpho-syntactic features of its
> content, whil <num> bears a semantic tract of its content, so they
> have different markup semantic
> 3) there is a fairly simple solution for both the issues, that is
> nesting <w> or <phr> inside <num>
> 4) in the worst case the issue can be faced with a local extension of
> TEI scheme.
> 
> Fabio
> 
> 
> assigned_to: Fabio Ciotti
> Comment:
> 
> Assigning to Fabio Ciotti for triage, reporting to council, and implementation
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> [bugs:#617] <num> not a part of att.segLike (and thus of att.fragmentable)
> 
> Status: open
> Group: AMBER
> Created: Tue Oct 29, 2013 09:39 PM UTC by Ville Marttila
> Last Updated: Tue Oct 29, 2013 09:39 PM UTC
> Owner: Fabio Ciotti
> 
> Considering that the element <num> is parallel to the element <w> in
> annotating a number, which can from a linguistic point of view be
> considered a word-level unit, it should also belong to the att.segLike
> class. This would not only provide it with the @function attribute for
> annotating its syntactic function but would also include it in the
> att.fragmentable class, allowing the annotation of incomplete numbers
> (esp. Roman numerals which are often quite long and can easily be
> partially lost).
> 
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