Hello all, I realise that many of us are on the TEI list and hence have seen this; it is an important question, however, and I thought I would distribute it here as well. If you are just beginning in computer applications, the issue is fairly advanced (though it has already come up), and you're not likely to write a position paper on it in the next 30 days; I hope in this one instance, you'll forgive me for not explaining it unless asked. -dan
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: The time has come to make some s Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:20:35 -0400 From: Syd Bauman Syd_Bauman@BROWN.EDU Reply-To: editors@tei-c.org To: TEI-L@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO INFLUENCE P5! ---- --- ---------- -- --------- ---
Over the last year there has been some public discussion of the "replacement Janus" mechanism for P5. The quick overview is that, in order to avoid putting content (which might need markup) in attribute values (which can't have markup), it has been suggested that we change the so-called Janus tags from things like
<corr sic="adnire">admire</corr> <orig reg="w">vv</orig>ith <orig reg="w">vv</orig>hat charity the <abbr expan="Text Encoding Initiative Consortium">tei-c</abbr>
to things like
<choice> <sic>adnire</sic> <corr>admire</corr> </choice> <choice><orig>vv</orig><reg>w</reg></choice>ith <choice> <reg>w</reg> <orig>vv</orig> </choice>hat charity the <choice src="abbr"> <abbr>tei-c</abbr> <expan>Text Encoding Initiative Consortium</expan> </choice>
The TEI Council would like to enlist the assistance of interested parties in helping them consider the issues involved. Therefore, this is a call for volunteers to write up a short working paper on the issues surrounding the use of the new mechanism and of the previous attribute mechanism. (Note that some have referred to the new mechanism as the "choice" mechanism, but the name of the element used in the examples above is not carved in stone, and is one issue the authors of this working paper may wish to address.)
Current thinking is that a first draft of the paper should be ready by Sat 07 Aug, and the final version should be ready on Thu 16 Sep.
Interested volunteers should reply to editors@tei-c.org.