[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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