[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

[Arianna Ciula]

John A. Walsh wrote:
> The practice of pointing @rend to <rendition> is not just for born 
> digital material.  I think CSS (or XSL-FO) properties such as 
> font-family, font-size, font-weight, text-indent, etc. can be used to 
> describe accurately and precisely the appearance of a source document, 
> at least for printed source documents, though many properties can also 
> be useful in the description of manuscript documents.

Good point.
I don't want to seem against this. As I said, I think the precision of 
the encoding would only gain. The issue is, as always, the balance 
between the precision of a good practice and the flexible tolerance of 
the single user's practices.

We will see what the TEI-L has to say.

Arianna

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Dr Arianna Ciula
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