Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of 2008-09-19 and 2008-09-23 DESpecs


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     1{{{
     2#!html
     3<h2 class="titleHead">DE Specs Working Group Meetings</h2>
     4<div class="author" ><span
     5class="pplr8t-x-x-120">Klaus Thoden</span></div>
     6<br />
     7<div class="date" ></div>
     8   </div>
     9   <h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">1    </span> <a
     10 id="x1-10001"></a>Meeting on September 19</h3>
     11<!--l. 23--><p class="noindent" >
     12   <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">1.1    </span> <a
     13 id="x1-20001.1"></a>DE Specs 0.1</h4>
     14<!--l. 25--><p class="noindent" >Wolfgang presented version 0.1 of the DE Specs. They were then discussed in detail
     15concerning structure and contents.
     16<!--l. 28--><p class="noindent" >
     17   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">1.1.1    </span> <a
     18 id="x1-30001.1.1"></a>Structure</h5>
     19<!--l. 30--><p class="noindent" >There should be a logical order in the specifications. The most frequent features should occur
     20first.
     21<!--l. 33--><p class="indent" >   Examples should contain a picture and the text that is going to be typed (using another
     22font).
     23<!--l. 36--><p class="indent" >   There should also be an appendix which contains one transcribed page, the tags that were
     24used, a list of ligatures and how they are going to be resolved and a list of characters that
     25should be typed in directly.
     26<!--l. 40--><p class="indent" >   The specifications should have a modular character so that instructions could be easily
     27added or removed for special books or languages.
     28                                                                               
     29
     30                                                                               
     31<!--l. 44--><p class="noindent" >
     32   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">1.1.2    </span> <a
     33 id="x1-40001.1.2"></a>Contents</h5>
     34<!--l. 46--><p class="noindent" >
     35     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     36<span
     37class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Columns</span> </dt><dd
     38class="description">
     39     <!--l. 51--><p class="noindent" >An illustration will show how columns are to be typed. They should be numbered
     40     from left to right.</dd></dl>
     41<!--l. 54--><p class="noindent" >
     42     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     43<span
     44class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Hyphens</span> </dt><dd
     45class="description">
     46     <!--l. 59--><p class="noindent" >Instances of all sorts of hyphens should be included in the manual so that they
     47     are recognized correctly.</dd></dl>
     48<!--l. 62--><p class="noindent" >
     49     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     50<span
     51class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Notes</span> </dt><dd
     52class="description">
     53     <!--l. 67--><p class="noindent" >Marginal notes are to be typed in the line they appear closest to and it should be
     54     stated on which side of the body they occur.
     55     <!--l. 70--><p class="noindent" >Footnotes are divided into two parts, the mark in the body and the text at the
     56     bottom of the page.</dd></dl>
     57<!--l. 73--><p class="noindent" >
     58     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     59<span
     60class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Figures</span> </dt><dd
     61class="description">
     62     <!--l. 78--><p class="noindent" >The figure tag should be assigned to all sorts of images, be it illustrations, smaller
     63     ornaments or pictures at the beginning of a chapter.
     64     <!--l. 82--><p class="noindent" >There  will  be  clear  instructions  in  the  specifications  where  to  insert  the  tag
     65     depending on where the image is on the physical page.</dd></dl>
     66<!--l. 85--><p class="noindent" >
     67     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     68<span
     69class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Help and gap tags</span> </dt><dd
     70class="description">
     71     <!--l. 90--><p class="noindent" >If there are characters that are unrecognizable due to a physical defect but might
     72     still be considered as readable by an expert, the <span
     73class="pcrr8t-x-x-109">&#x003C;help&#x003E; </span>tag should be written.
     74     <!--l. 94--><p class="noindent" >The <span
     75class="pcrr8t-x-x-109">&#x003C;gap&#x003E; </span>tag is used to denote totally unreadable parts of the text.</dd></dl>
     76<!--l. 96--><p class="noindent" >
     77                                                                               
     78
     79                                                                               
     80     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     81<span
     82class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Italics and small caps</span> </dt><dd
     83class="description">
     84     <!--l. 101--><p class="noindent" >Words in italics should be surrounded by an underscore. Whole paragraphs in
     85     italics will be marked up by an argument in the paragraph tag.
     86     <!--l. 105--><p class="noindent" >Text in small caps is to be surrounded by opening and closing tags.
     87     </dd></dl>
     88<!--l. 109--><p class="noindent" >
     89   <h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2    </span> <a
     90 id="x1-50002"></a>Meeting on September 23</h3>
     91<!--l. 111--><p class="noindent" >
     92   <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.1    </span> <a
     93 id="x1-60002.1"></a>DE Specs 0.2</h4>
     94<!--l. 113--><p class="noindent" >Version 0.2 of the DE Specs was presented. Contents and structure were again discussed. The
     95pictures in the examples should include a mark pointing directly to the item in
     96question.
     97   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.1.1    </span> <a
     98 id="x1-70002.1.1"></a>New issues</h5>
     99<!--l. 118--><p class="noindent" >
     100     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     101<span
     102class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Handwriting</span> </dt><dd
     103class="description">
     104     <!--l. 123--><p class="noindent" >A tag should be added where a handwritten text or figure occurs so that these
     105     instances can be found more easily.</dd></dl>
     106<!--l. 126--><p class="noindent" >
     107     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     108<span
     109class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Quotations</span> </dt><dd
     110class="description">
     111     <!--l. 131--><p class="noindent" >Two structures are to be distinguished: inline quotations and block quotations.
     112     Paragraphs that only contain quotation are tagged as a block quotation.</dd></dl>
     113<!--l. 135--><p class="noindent" >
     114     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     115<span
     116class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Tables</span> </dt><dd
     117class="description">
     118     <!--l. 140--><p class="noindent" >Tables should be typed in lines with special field separator tags (e. g. #). The fact
     119     that distinguishes tables from columns is that they do not contain running text.</dd></dl>
     120<!--l. 144--><p class="noindent" >
     121                                                                               
     122
     123                                                                               
     124     <dl class="description"><dt class="description">
     125<span
     126class="pplb8t-x-x-109">Footers</span> </dt><dd
     127class="description">
     128     <!--l. 149--><p class="noindent" >Footers, if recognized, are assigned the same tags as headings.</dd></dl>
     129<!--l. 151--><p class="noindent" >
     130   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.1.2    </span> <a
     131 id="x1-80002.1.2"></a>Typing conventions</h5>
     132<!--l. 153--><p class="noindent" >Most of the characters found in the books should be typed in directly. Most of the
     133ligatures are going to be resolved into the basic letters with a tag that there was a
     134ligature.
     135<!--l. 157--><p class="indent" >   If a character cannot be typed directly it should be marked as an unknown character
     136with an ID. The digitized text should then also contain a list of these unknown
     137characters.
     138<!--l. 161--><p class="indent" >   Greek should be entered in Unicode.
     139   <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.2    </span> <a
     140 id="x1-90002.2"></a>First introduction to XML Schema</h4>
     141<!--l. 164--><p class="noindent" >There are two documents that will serve as starting points for the schema. They can be
     142accessed via the wiki. The <span
     143class="pplri8t-x-x-109">Dublin Core </span>standard will be used for the metadata.
     144<!--l. 168--><p class="indent" >   Other issues will be discussed after delivering the DE Specs 1.0.
     145<!--l. 172--><p class="noindent" >
     146   <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.3    </span> <a
     147 id="x1-100002.3"></a>Next Steps</h4>
     148<!--l. 174--><p class="noindent" >
     149   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.3.1    </span> <a
     150 id="x1-110002.3.1"></a>Milestones</h5>
     151<!--l. 176--><p class="noindent" >Version 1.0 will contain only specifications for texts written using the latin or greek alphabet.
     152Later versions will also cover Chinese and fraktur texts.
     153   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">2.3.2    </span> <a
     154 id="x1-120002.3.2"></a>Work sample</h5>
     155<!--l. 181--><p class="noindent" >Before all books are sent to China, a small work sample will be made so that the specifications
     156can be modified.
     157                                                                               
     158
     159                                                                               
     160   
     161</body></html>
     162}}}
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