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description vs gloss in `@type` of `<divGen>` #2298

Closed sydb closed 1 year ago

sydb commented 2 years ago

I think some of the <desc> elements inside <valItem>s in the definition of @type in the element specification of <divGen> (i.e., in P5/Source/Specs/divGen.xml) should be <gloss> elements instead.

lb42 commented 2 years ago

I think this is a systematic problem actually

sydb commented 2 years ago

It strikes me as quite possible you are correct, @lb42. So …

I have just written a routine to make a table of descriptions and glosses. Seems to me any description that contains that which should have been a gloss will be pretty short. So the table includes a column for the approximate length of the description. Sorting the table by this column is somewhat instructive. At first glance it seems there definitely are other cases, but only a few dozen, not hundreds. I put a copy of the output on my basement server so folks can take a look.

sydb commented 1 year ago

Note — I have updated the table to today’s dev version of the Guidelines, and @trishaoconnor and I plan to tackle this, probably starting next week.