Things to Do

(An unordered list for discussion in the first meeting, May 9th 2007.)

Mechanisms for Release, Publication and Online Review of Guidelines

• Re-activate GL updating/mirroring at Stoa

Review Guidelines

• take a census of hollow or too sketchy sections
  • priorities: items required for Leiden-conformance should be dealt with first
    • GB checked against his cheat sheet and found:
      • lines/sections (see GB below)
      • the problems with gaps we identified in San Diego (see below)
      • expansion of symbol (small problem)
      • There's also <space>, though HC may have fixed that by now (see below)
    • TE to do census of actual Leiden conformance list in GLs themselves

structure

• document lines in GL GB
• clarify and document sections in GL GB priority
• sections in XSL GB priority

Space

• <space/> is screwed in the xslts, and possibly the encoding guidance, God have mercy on our souls.
  • Compare documentation of <space/> with Insaph usage GB
  • fix XSLT which currently does not display vacat HC priority
  • add @precision to GLs (and XSLT)

Precision

• dtd change for a precision attribute (circa | exact) #implied .... for use on the following elements: DONE
  • gap/date/measure/space DONE
• Plus: we need to get @precision into TEI P5 ( !=@cert )
• Plus: we need to unconflate @extent and @unit in P5

apparatus

• document Apparatus in GL (and XSL)
  • DTD and GL done
  • XSL to do HC

<mark/> DONE

• add <g> to DTD GB DONE
• document <g> (replacement for <mark/>) GB DONE
• plus XSL GB DONE
• deprecate <mark/> and remove from DTD in six months time (November 2007)

problems with gap

• Fix logic in the named template "calcgapextentstring" (in teigap.xsl) to deal with any gap that has an extentmax attribute the same way, regardless of the quanity stored in the "extent" attribute.
• fold into the existing "lostline.xml" the content of lost beginning or end, and normalize same
• replace the use of <gap extent="something"/><certainty locus="extent" degree="low"/> with, simply, <gap extent="something" precision="circa"/>
• replace the use of <gap [[[no extent!]]]/><certainty locus="extent" degree="low"/> with, simply, <gap extent="unknown"/>

editorial corrections

• we need to address the case, mostly arising in Greek epigraphy and in papyrology, where there is no difference in sigla used for a case of editorial addition vs. a case of editorial correction per se (deletion being unproblematic in this context). To wit: blah is the correct tagging to use (sans an enclosing ).
  • Whereas, if one *can* detect the difference (regardless what one's Leiden sigla practice might be), we would expect to see: <supplied reason="omitted">b</supplied>lah or <choice><sic>p</sic><corr>b</corr></choice>lah. DTD and XSLT modifications and, especially, guidelines modifications, are/may be required to make this work.

Sic and corr

• dtd change:
  • corr cannot have a sic attribute
  • sic cannot have a corr attribute

SourceForge

• investigate transfer from SF CVS to SVN TRE DONE
• more investigation needed TRE/HC
• backup contents and transfer HC