[tei-council] http://purl.org/tei/fr/3519866 (@rend datatype)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 5 Jul 2012, at 18:38, Kevin Hawkins wrote:

> Sebastian, can you please be less cryptic?  

Sorry, not deliberate at all. Just a combination of poor typing skills,
Apple auto-"correct", my incipient dementia, and being in a hurry.

>> So it's
>>      <p rend="font-size: large"> Hello <add rend="handwritten">pussycat</add>, Happy Birthday!</p>
>> on one of Lou's postcards?
> 
> I don't know whether there's anything I'm supposed to know about Lou's 
> postcards.

Lou has recently been promoting the idea of using a corpus of picture postcards
in TEI teaching

>  But perhaps you meant
> 
> <p style="font-size: large">Hello <add 
> rend="handwritten">pussycat</add>, Happy Birthday!</p>
> 

no, I meant to give an example of the nonsensical situation we can end up
with if we use @rend for everything.

> What is a single-shot @rend?

"put whatever you like in just the single attribute, @rend. you only get one shot at the target."

I agree, that was pretty obscure, sorry. It was elegant, though :-}

>  And what does "inutterably" mean?
> 
unutterably.

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