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A repository for the LDLT Guidelines
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Greater clarity needed on swapping #28

Closed sjhuskey closed 6 years ago

sjhuskey commented 6 years ago

Mastronarde and Tarrant write:

(Transposition): there are two different ways of encoding transpositions: a) with semantic markup, which allows users of the LDLT to swap the transposition in and out of the displayed text, or b) with a prose description, which does not allow such functionality for the user. This raises a larger question: are there specific criteria that determine which variants (including conjectures) are eligible for swapping? Or (perhaps the better way of posing the question) is it possible to specify what types of variant are not eligible? Since the potential for swapping is one of the most distinctive features of the digital edition (and the one that most troubles traditionalists), greater clarity on this point would be helpful.

sjhuskey commented 6 years ago

Since swapping is a feature not of the guidelines, but of the viewer, I guess there should be a section that explains what is essential for enabling the features of the viewer.

sjhuskey commented 6 years ago

Added a section on the definition of an LDLT edition, with a subsection on the LDLT Viewer and its features.