[tei-council] rendition/rend proposal

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Aug 2 10:28:27 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:
> b) @rendition is not such a nice name. Would @style be better (OK I 
> know it's exactly not what HTML @style is but @class would be really 
> confusing)? @rendPtr ? @render ?
@style or @class would remind one of the HTML attributes which are NOT 
the same
semantically or syntactically. Bad....

@rendered would be better, as it makes clear that this is how it _was_ 
rendered,
not how it _will_ be.
> most production systems that I know of will take what the TEI document 
> says about source rendition and use it to determine the output 
> rendition anyway.
quite....

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