[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

[Daniel O'Donnell]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:36 +0100, 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? 

Well following David's observation, I'd have thought the answer to this
question is always: i.e. even @rend="font-decoration:underline;" is a
description of rendition in the digitally born document, not "how it
should be rendered."

Speaking of digitally born documents and rendition: what do we do a)
about including stylesheet information as rendition information in the
tei-xml document, and b) about declaring the language used in rendition
if the our Born Digital Document is styled using a recognisable
language.

In the case of a) I am not wondering about how to attach a CSS sheet or
the like for output processing, but how to include it as a rendition
description on input: if I have a CSS stylesheet that formats the front
page of the NYTimes, for example, the style information seems to me to
be as much a valid rendition description as "written in a big looping
hand" is for a manuscript.

> @rend="done in emacs without benefit 
> of markup" doesnt seem very likely.
> 
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