[tei-council] TEI TITE question

[Paul F. Schaffner]

On Tue, 8 May 2012, Kevin Hawkins wrote:

> If we added <i> and then added a note to the definition of <hi> saying
> that it's equivalent to <hi rend="i"> (or <hi type="i">!), I would be
> happy because people who want to do undifferentiated italics would
> almost certainly choose <i> in this case, and our interchange problems
> (and stylesheet-writing problems!) would be mitigated.

A doltish side-question: why does this discussion assume that <i>
is equivalent to <hi rend="italic"> rather than to <seg rend="italic">?
I should have thought that using <hi> was at least a little abusive,
if all you want to do is record the fact that something is in
italics and avoid taking responsibility for saying why.

  <closer>
  <dateline><i>Pera</i> <r>18.</r> <i>Octob.</i> <r>1647.</r></dateline>
  <signed><r>Your friend to serve you,</r> <i>Tho. Bendish</i></signed>
  <signed><i>Vera Copia Examinatur &amp; concordat eum original.
  per nos.</i> <r>Jo. Williams, Ant. Isaacson.</r></signed>
  <closer>

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