[tei-council] rendition, rend, and style

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed May 16 17:28:29 EDT 2007


James Cummings wrote:
>   Because doing rend="bigWobbly" where I define that by a paragraph in 
> my ODD necessitates the ODD to accompany the instance (not a bad 
> thing!), but point to a <rendition> element in the header where I have 
> a paragraph describing it means my document instance stands on its own 
> in terms of documenting the meaning of the values it contains.
true. but why single out this one element for documentation of attribute 
values in the header? you
could say the same about @type
>
> Is there an easy clear way to have something be multiple tokens and/or 
> multiple pointers? Or is that just getting icky?

you cant distinguish. rend="big" could mean either.


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