[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

John A. Walsh jawalsh at indiana.edu
Wed May 9 07:58:40 EDT 2007


On May 9, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:

>
>>
>> Incidentally, if we go with B. and style classes are defined in  
>> <rendition> elements of the TEI Header, then we could add an  
>> attribute to <rendition> that indicates whether the "target" of  
>> this rendition "class" is the source text or the output format.   
>> The @style attribute would remain ambiguous in terms of source/ 
>> output, but this ambiguity could be addressed and clarified in the  
>> <encodingDesc>.
>
> Why would you want to use e.g. CSS to describe the *original*  
> rendition? surely it lacks many features you'd need (nothing about  
> page layout, for example) and has too many irrelevant ones (because  
> it assumes you are going to render it on a screen)?
>

I'm imagining people might use a mix of CSS and XSL-FO and their own  
custom definitions to describe things.  I believe CSS covers most of  
what people use rend for (font styles, indentation, superscript,  
subscript, alignment, margins, color, line spacing, etc.)



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