[tei-council] <witStart>, <witEnd>, <lacunaStart> and <lacunaEnd>

[Hugh Cayless]

It does. That's what I get for looking at the Guidelines on my phone!

Sent from my phone. 

> On Jun 26, 2014, at 22:43, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 14-06-26 03:44 PM, Hugh Cayless wrote:
>> There would have to be a mechanism for identifying which witness each one belonged to if they occurred on their own in the text.
> 
> Doesn't @wit do that?
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
>> 
>> Sent from my phone.
>> 
>>> On Jun 26, 2014, at 18:06, "Mylonas, Elli" <elli_mylonas at brown.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all:
>>> 
>>> I am writing you to ask for comments on the following TEI feature request:
>>> 
>>> The elements listed above, <witStart>, <witEnd>, <lacunaStart> and
>>> <lacunaEnd>, are currently allowed only in  <rdg> or <lem> inside <app>.
>>> 
>>> We have had requests to allow these milestone-like elements in the main
>>> part of a text - either because witnesses are being encoded separately, or
>>> because collation is being done automatically, without indicating thinking
>>> of it as a traditional app crit.
>>> 
>>> solutions:
>>> 1. Elegance: add  <witStart>, <witEnd>, <lacunaStart> and <lacunaEnd> to
>>> the milestoneLike model and remove them from textcrit.
>>> 2. Functionality: use anchor with a type for this purpose.
>>> 
>>> One more point - I see a difference between <lacunaStart> and <lacunaEnd>
>>> which could apply to features of a main text and <witStart> and <witEnd>
>>> which seem to belong in a main text but refer to other witnesses.
>>> 
>>> I think I cast my vote for opening them up. Comments?
>>> 
>>> thanks, --elli
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