on rend= and rendRef= (was "Re: Fwd: [tei-council] DRAFT Agenda for ...")
Syd Bauman
Syd_Bauman at Brown.edu
Thu Jun 14 21:06:44 EDT 2007
> > I suppose if it was a choice of @rend *or* @rendRef it would be
> > slightly nicer.
> I tend to agree. I know if I had "@rendref" (as a pointer to a
> tei:rendition), I would probably use it in place of rend
> everywhere.
One of the important uses for having both simultaneously would to be
able to say "this <thing> is rendered just like it says at
#thingRend, *except* that it is also small caps" or whatever. I.e.,
to use rend= to override portions of what is specified by rendRef=.
Or, for example, to have a default rendition for footnotes:
<rendition xml:id="fnRend">place(foot) align(left)
weight(bold) first-indent(1)</rendition>
and then specify the detail of the anchor character on the element
itself:
<note rendRef="#fnRend" rend="pre(†)">quack!</note>
> > What scares me is adding a new attribute to att.global, because
> > it becomes so visible to everyone. What you _could_ have is
> > @rendRef supplied by an optional module, but then what else would
> > that contain?
>
> That seems reasonable to me.
Me too, although
a) I don't wonder if rendRef= should be in att.global, and rend=
should be ostracized for those who want to say a lot of detail
about rendition;
b) I wonder if the 'transcr' module (can we rename that?) defined by
chapter "PH-PrimarySources" would be the right place for whichever
attribute is *not* in global.
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