[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

[Sebastian Rahtz]

John A. Walsh wrote:
>
> There seems to be wise agreement not to duplicate @html:style with a 
> new @tei:style.  For @rend, what you describe above-- at rend as a 
> pointer to <rendition>--is what I was planning to document if there is 
> agreement to move @rend more in the direction of @html:class.  @rend 
> would be different from @html:class because of its (potential) linkage 
> with <rendition>.    I think this proposed change to @rend is a good 
> idea (and something I've used for years in my P4 extension files and 
> P5 ODD files). It helps prevent sloppy use of @rend (e.g., @rend="i", 
> @rend="italic", @rend="italics", @rend="italicize", etc.--all in the 
> same document).  It potentially allows easy automatic generation of 
> CSS (or XSL-FO) styles from information documented in the <rendition> 
> elements of the TEI Header. But changing the datatype of @rend would 
> break lots of stuff, e.g., rendition ladders.  It's a fairly radical 
> change to a widely used global element.
Having @rend as a pointer would be nice, but I can see it would be 
horrid disruptive.

Lets suppose @rend='foo' gets you to a part of <rendition>. are you 
proposing a notation
there to distinguish input from output?

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Sebastian Rahtz      

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