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<title>P5 version 1.2 release notes</title>
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<date when="2008-11-07">7 November 2008</date>
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<authority>The Text Encoding Initiative</authority>
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when="2007-10-28">created retrospectively from svn ChangeLog</change>
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<p>This is a maintenance release, implementing minor changes
agreed by the TEI Council between May and September 2008, in
response to a number of suggestions and bug reports received at
the TEI Sourceforge request tracker. </p>
<p>Details of specific changes made are available at the tickets
indicated below:
<list>
<item>Corrected error in NH (1933242 )</item>
<item>Several changes improving flexibility of use of the
<gi>msDesc</gi> element, in particular to enhance usability for description of
incunabula as well as manuscripts: 2032853, 2032879 2055116 2032853 2055122</item>
<item>Several improvements in formatting for PDF version, including
addition of copyright statement. (2144725, 2144681) </item>
<item>Added several elements to att.typed class rather than allowing
them to declare @type locally (1848442 1970880 2100015)</item>
<item>Changed wording for descriptions of <gi>desc</gi> (2055880) and
<gi>title</gi> (2138273)</item>
<item>Expanded content model of <gi>w</gi> element (2055820)</item>
<item>Clarified and exemplified use of <att>period</att> attribute
(1927987)</item>
<item>Changed <gi>egXML</gi> so that its content references a
new macro <ident>anyXML</ident>; this has the side effect that DTD
language cannot be used (2021933). </item>
<item>Introduced new class <ident>att.canonical</ident> to support all kinds of
canonical name referencing (1852101 1977702)</item>
<item>Changed content model for <gi>monogr</gi> to permit <gi>idno</gi>
(1930148)</item>
<item>Made consistent usage of @extent as alternative to other more
precise attributes inherited from <ident>att.dimensions</ident> (1925125)</item>
<item>Merged in French translations for <gi>remarks</gi> components of
all element specifications, completed Chinese translations of
descriptions, and added Korean translations</item>
<item>Redefined <gi>titleStmt</gi> content model to use classes, and
define new class members (2157693)</item>
<item>Made use of @type on att.segLike elements more consistent
(2161974)</item>
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