On Tue, Nov 12 2019, Camillo Formigatti wrote:
Dear Andrew,
Is this really a punctuation character? What's its function? I think it doesn't fulfil the same function as a danda, it's a simple line filler and thus has a simple decorative function, so to say. We discussed about it at length during the project and we decided to tag it with <g> for several reasons. If you are interested, I can explain it in more detail.
Dear list, I also tag these as tei:pc. But I suppose Camillo does have a point that it isn’t actually a punctuation character. Seems I’ll prefer tei:g from now on. And probably everyone is aware of this, but anyway: Einicke 2009 (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1014639410), pp. 290ff., heads a section with these signs “Randausgleich (oder Worttrenner am Zeilenende?)”. This describes their function, roughly: “Margin-equalizer (or a word-separator at the end of the line?)” I couldn’t find the reason she suspects it might be a word-separator. I’ve started to refer to her functional classifications quite a lot (usually with @ana attributes). 1+ for coordination of efforts: the TEI council uses github nowadays, so we could too. For academic efforts, it used to be possible to get a free (=gratis, not really free) group account. Best wishes, -- Patrick McAllister long-term email: pma@rdorte.org