[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

[Arianna Ciula]

I totally agree with what David says about the meaning of @rend for not 
born digital material.

As far as born digital material regard though, I can imagine the 
situation where someone wants to differentiate the semantics (not big or 
small, but myIntrepret_category1 and myIntrepret_category2) of the 
information so that some style could be applied - possibly - later on. 
We should remember that in some cases the people who do the markup are 
not bothered (should they be?) about what style is going to be applied 
to their documents, but they do want to differentiate between different 
things that may need a different visualisation. So while I can see the 
advantages of a good practice in pointing @rend to <rendition> in the 
header for born digital material, I am still not sure this is the only 
use we should support for @rend in this case.

Arianna

Lou's Laptop wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> If @rend says it is for source description only,
>> then my born-digital document
>> can't use it.
> Hmm, I may be logic chopping here, but I don't think I agree. If your 
> doc is born digital, then you *are* describing the source when you say 
> @rend=sup, surely?
> 
> Maybe this is one of the points that needs more careful elaboration. Can 
> we imagine a case where @rend in a born-digital document does not 
> describe how it should be rendered? @rend="done in emacs without benefit 
> of markup" doesnt seem very likely.
> 
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Dr Arianna Ciula
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