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adding @type and @place to <label> #365

Closed TEITechnicalCouncil closed 9 years ago

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 12 years ago

There is a distinct use of <label> to record the marginal headings so common in older books, exemplified in the 3rd example at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html\#CONONO. There, the marginal placement is marked by @rend. This bothers me, as the position in the margin is rather structural, indicating it is a floating object, not just a rendition. I therefore suggest that we add @place to <label>, comparable to <note>.

I also suggest that this extended use of <label> makes it a good candidate for a @type attribute. For example, to distinguish a set of <label>s which mark "years since the founding of Rome" from a set which provide a little heading

There are many many examples in TCP EEBO of the marginal material.

Original comment by: @sebastianrahtz

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 9 years ago

This issue was originally assigned to SF user: pfschaffner Current user is: pfschaffner

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 12 years ago

Original comment by: @jamescummings

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 12 years ago

I would treat most such things as <note place="margin"> though I see the argument for regarding them more as headings. Is the argument for preferring <label place="margin"> in some cases that the annotations form a sequence or are otherwise applied throughout a text in a way that notes are generally not? I ask because we need to be able to provide guidance as to what the distinction is if we wish to proceed with this.

Original comment by: @lb42

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 12 years ago

Original comment by: @lb42

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 12 years ago

We see this all the time in our Early Modern French texts, and they are definitely, as Paul says, label-like and not note-like. They're marginal subject headings, and we encode them with <label>. You'll find them, for instance, throughout this text:

<http://mariage.uvic.ca/anth\_doc.htm?id=forest\_nuptiale&gt;

Original comment by: @martindholmes

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 11 years ago

Implemented at 11326 . more examples needed though, paul!

Original comment by: @lb42

TEITechnicalCouncil commented 11 years ago

Original comment by: @lb42