[tei-council] @style /rend/rendition coexistence

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 5 Oct 2012, at 20:37, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

>> If I meet <hi style="font-weight:bold;" rend="italic">hello</hi>
>> I guess I am just going to swallow nervously and generate
>>   <span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic">hello</span>
>> and
>>  {\bfseries\itshape hello}
>> etc
> 
> I think that's the start of a very very slippery slope

not sure why?

> 
>> 
>> but equally I dont mind being told that @rend wipes out @style/@rendition
>> --
> 
> "wipes out" in what sense? the attributes are all still there; it's up to your app what it does with them.


ok, put it another way, @style and @rend are alternates. the encoder has kindly provided two different
ways of describing what the source looks like, you can read whichever you like (but not process both if you
are a stylesheet).


did we ever decide what <hi rend="nice" rendition="#lions">hello</hi> means?

oh what a tangled web we've woved for ourselves with this business. 
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