[tei-council] P5 use of rend in examples

James Cummings James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sun Nov 13 12:58:35 EST 2011


On 13/11/11 18:44, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> On 11/13/2011 12:37 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>
>> On 13 Nov 2011, at 17:27, James Cummings wrote:
>>> rend="red bold italic" is fine in my mind.
>>> rend="color:red font-weight:bold font-style:italic" is also fine.
>>> rend="color is red ;font weight is bold; font style is italic;" is evil
>>> and wrong IMHO.
>>>
>>> The TEI In Libraries example using spaces is somewhere between the
>>> second and the third of these.
>>>
>>
>> The TEI in Libraries people have effectively mapped @rend to HTML's @style
>> (except for use on<pb/>!). If I was them, I'd actually use @html:style instead,
>> to be entirely explicit, and return @rend to its magic token status.
>
> Excellent idea!  Duly noted:

I'd disagree... that is why we invented @rendition.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
OUCS, University of Oxford


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