inconsistent spelling of header

[sydb]

@martinascholger says we are inconsistent in our use of “TEI Header” vs “TEI header”. A little bit of research says she’s right. Looking at 1b6e0b1, I find

    137 TEI header
     19 TEI Header
      9 TEI-Header
      4 TEI-Headers
      2 TEI headers
      1 TEI header's
      1 TEI Headers

in the content. (I.e., looking only at text() nodes.) If we remove the apostrophes and esses, that reduces to:

    140 TEI header
     20 TEI Header
     13 TEI-Header

Document TCW 20 does not mention how to spell this. But it does refer the reader to the Style Guide, but that link is dead.

[martinascholger]

Here ist the style guide: http://teic.github.io/TCW/tcw24.html
and it says TEI header

[sydb]

Excellent, thanks!
Can you fix the pointer in TCW 20, and I’ll fix the other spellings?

[martinascholger]

fixed in TCW20: TEIC/Documentation@c3511ed

[sydb]

Mostly fixed in 55e9569. German speakers: I did not know what to do with

umfasst Elemente, die innerhalb von TEI Header benutzt werden dürfen und mehrmals auftreten können.

in model.teiHeaderPart.

[martinascholger]

In German it is "TEI-Header"

[sydb]

So the German description of model.teiHeaderPart should read “umfasst Elemente, die innerhalb von TEI-Header benutzt werden dürfen und mehrmals auftreten können.” then, eh? I will check that in now. Please let me know (or fix directly) if I have that wrong.

[duncdrum]

innerhalb von des TEI-Header

[martinascholger]

@sydb I'll change this now

[sydb]

Unless there is an objection from another German speaker (@martinascholger, @peterstadler, @ martinmueller39, and @smjwsk jump to mind) I will plan to delete “von” in a few hours.

[martinascholger]

"innerhalb des TEI-Headers"

[martinascholger]

closing with 2c2d3ac

[sydb]

Danke!

[gimsieke]

As a native speaker of German, I agree that genitive is “des Headers”. This is what Duden says, too. Interestingly, Duden also says that the plural of the Germanized word “Header” is “die Headers”. I don’t think this English-style plural is how the German speakers who regularly use “Header” would form the plural. It ought to be “die Header”, as in “der Koffer, des Koffers, die Koffer“. This is an indication that Header has truly been adopted as a German word, at least in the IT community. Virtually no one outside IT uses “Header” in German.

I just noticed that Duden also claims that Header may be either male oder neuter. It’s male in my view. I launched a Twitter poll on that.