[tei-council] tagdocs elements inside <graphic>

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk
Wed Sep 5 04:05:01 EDT 2012


Sorry for being cryptic.

At the moment, Roma offers you a choice of


<option value="tei_bare.odd">TEI Absolutely Bare</option>
<option value="teilite.odd">TEI Lite</option>
<option value="tei_tite.odd">TEI Tite</option>
<option value="tei_corpus.odd">TEI for Linguistic Corpora</option>
<option value="tei_ms.odd">TEI for Manuscript Description</option>
<option value="tei_drama.odd">TEI with Drama</option>
<option value="tei_speech.odd">TEI for Speech Representation</option>
<option value="tei_odds.odd">TEI for authoring ODD</option>
<option value="tei_svg.odd">TEI with SVG</option>
<option value="tei_math.odd">TEI with MathML</option>
<option value="tei_xinclude.odd">TEI with XInclude (experimental)</option>
<option value="tei_its.odd">TEI with W3C ITS</option>
<option value="tei_dictionaries.odd">TEI for Dictionaries (experimental)</option>


as customisations to build on.

Bare, Lite, and Tite make sense; they are coherent and have a purpose. 
SVG, MathML, XInclude, ITS and ODD are also sensible,
as they involve non-obvious techniques which you can't easily
do in plain Roma.

So that leaves Drama, Speech, MS, and Dictionaries. I claim
that none of these are meaningfully useful, documented,
or follow any known recommendation.

Would anyone like to defend them?
--
Sebastian Rahtz      
Director (Research Support) of Academic IT Services 
University of Oxford IT Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431



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