September 2016 - Tei-council

deprecated constructs removed
by Syd Bauman 10 Sep '16

10 Sep '16

Per our deprecation, I've removed <altIdentitier> as a child of <msPart> and <idno> as a child of <biblStruct>. (The latter 9 days early. Sue me.) > WARNING: use of deprecated method — the use of the altIdentifier > element as a direct child of the msPart element will be removed > from the TEI on 2016-09-09 > WARNING: use of deprecated method — the use of the idno element as > a direct child of the biblStruct element will be removed from the > TEI on 2016-09-18

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Google Sheets screw-up
by Syd Bauman 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

I used Chromium Web Browser on Ubuntu to edit our spreadsheet of arrivals and departures: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lfA50neSm_2tnX0qQj1vw9MhM3fgjN7WVOh… I wrote "Sat 09-24 10:10" into column B, and "Sat 10-01 10:25" into column C. In column B what I wrote was entered. In column C what I wrote was interpreted as a date and entered as "10/01/2016 10:25:00". However, it is displayed as "Sun 10-01 10:25". I'm betting this is because the date is interpreted as a European format date: January 10th was, in fact, a Sunday. Furthermore, the string displayed in C was right-justified until I over-rode that with explicit formatting. I'm guessing that "09-24" was not thought of as a date because "24" is not a possible month. I'm wondering if Google *always* thinks of dates as DD[sep]MM, or it does that because a European initiated this spreadsheet? (Who initiated this spreadsheet?) Anyway, I've inserted some words to prevent Google Sheets from thinking of these as dates.

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Reimbursements for F2F/Annual meeting
by Hugh Cayless 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi all, Since Council is playing a role in the conference, the Board has decided to reimburse members who need it for the extra nights. The Board would like me to remind everyone that there is a $1,500 cap on expenses to be reimbursed, but it is understood that this may be exceeded in some cases, and that's ok—you'll still get reimbursed unless your expenses are outlandish. This is actually the first time I've heard of a cap, and I've a feeling it was put in place before international flights got so expensive. My ticket was close to $1,500 all by itself, though fortunately I'm able to get a grant to pay for it. Bottom line is: don't let the cost stop you from coming! Let me know if you have any questions. Hugh

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some 1 splain it 2 me
by Syd Bauman 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

I am working on Stylesheet issue 135, which (IMHO) is a very serious bug. Yesterday I spun my wheels for perhaps 1/2 an hour to an hour being flummoxed. I then realized we have two almost identical (but a little different) templates that match tei:dataRef. One is in odds/teiodds.xsl, the other in odds/odd2relax.xsl. I don't understand the logic yet (I haven't tried), but it is empirically obvious that the former is run when building P5, the latter when making a customization with `roma`. Can someone explain to me 1) Why we have both 2) Where I should put a subroutine that I want both to be able to call The @minOccurs and @maxOccurs are handled differently by a variety of different routines, which makes this tough. But I am making progress.

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