need recommendation for note place="unspecified"

[balmas]

@lcerrato and @simonastoyanova what is your recommendation for the default value of place in the note elements as we convert them from P4?

"unspecified" I think is the default right now and default TEI stylesheets for transforming from XML to HTML don't like that.

[lcerrato]

For things like Loeb texts, it's going to be "bottom." If I recall, it was usually recorded when something was not at the bottom of the page (e.g. margins). Some texts will run into bottom opposite, but I don't think we can capture that now without reviewing every note.

[simonastoyanova]

Yeah, I 'm not sure we can do a one-fits-all thing here. I was never sure what these attributes on note actually meant in P4. I guess we could look at each collection/volume/book to get the structure of things in a bigger scale than each individual note... What is this attribute used for in Perseus, though? Does it affect the display? Because it doesn't link the note to the text or vice versa, so if we don't use it for anything I say just scrap it. If we do, then I suggest we have a look at the work/book/whatever it is and change it by work. Better suggestions welcome!

On 16 September 2015 at 16:36, Lisa Cerrato notifications@github.com wrote:

For things like Loeb texts, it's going to be "bottom." If I recall, it was usually recorded when something was not at the bottom of the page (e.g. margins). Some texts will run into bottom opposite, but I don't think we can capture that now without reviewing every note.

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[lcerrato]

I believe that it ties in with the CSS in P4 to the extent that it controls where a note appears. see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0077:chapter=20