[tei-council] facsimile - low-end markup

[Conal Tuohy]

There seems to be a consensus that at least a minimal facsimile markup is really needed in P5 version 1.0.

This needs to support the case of a transcript with a single set of page images (i.e. each page would have an optional image file associated with it). The simplest way would be to extend <pb> to add a URL attribute pointing to the facsimile graphic. e.g.

<pb graphic="p1.png" n="1" xml:id="p1"/>

I believe this is as far as Syd thinks we should go at this point, but I think there is also a strongly felt need for a mechanism to assign graphical coordinates to pieces of text, which we should address. This is most easily done by adding an optional @coords attribute to elements which can appear inside <text>. e.g.

<p coords="10 100 510 110">This paragraph is 500x10 pixels.</p>

This is about as far as many "facsimile" customisations of TEI have gone, and I think this is also a sensible minimum. NB this minimum would not use <graphic> elements to encode the facsimile images, hence it does not require a <facsimile> element.