[tei-council] Fwd: TEI TITE question

[Paul F. Schaffner]

And oh yes, I imagine that the existence of <i> alongside
@rend="italic" would only tend to add to the confusion about
inherited renderings. pfs

On Mon, 7 May 2012, Paul F. Schaffner wrote:

>
> On the 'pro' side, I've written schemas using i/b/u/sup/sub and
> found them handy, especially for vendor use (and for string-based
> processing). And they do have a reassuringly rootedness in actual
> page phenomena: TCP tried instead to get keyers to recognize
> 'salience' or markedness, which required them to identify first
> the unmarked default font of every structural unit. The result has
> been almost unmitigated disaster. We should have simply asked them
> to identify fonts and leave it at that.
>
> On the 'con' side, I already find myself protesting the inadequacy of
> the list. 'Bold' in particular is meaningless before, I think, the
> 19th century. Our chief contrasts are roman-italic-blackletter, with
> occasional subtype contrasts (rotunda/textura/bastarda) and of course
> font-size contrasts. On the Continent, it would be a little different.
> And with non-Latin alphabets more different still.
>
> pfs
>
>
>
> On Sun, 6 May 2012, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>> 
>> On 6 May 2012, at 14:35, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> 
>>> Note that at http://purl.org/TEI/fr/3075996 , in which we discuss
>>> incorporating parts of Tite into P5, we've considering having a fixed
>>> list of values for @rend in Tite.  This solution could potentially be
>>> used in P5 as well.
>> 
>> with the (so far non-existent) facility for TEI to modify itself, I could
>> imagine a TEI module called "strict" which had provided fixed
>> lists for @rend, to avoid everyone having to do it in their own ODD
>> 
>> Sebastian
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