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

[Martin Holmes]

 >    (If I was being extreme I might be tempted to argue we should
 > never have <hi style="font-weight:bold">...</hi> in born digital
 > documents because we shouldn't be marking 'highlighting' only
 > semantic instances of 'emphasis' or 'distinct' or similar for
 > which we have elements.)

Ah, but you have quotes in a born-digital document. When you're quoting, 
you can't always presume to discern why the original author bolded 
something.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-10-05 12:12 PM, James Cummings wrote:
> On 05/10/12 19:46, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> On 5 Oct 2012, at 19:08, Lou Burnard<lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
>>    wrote:
>>> <foo style="something else" rend="wibble">  mean?
>> 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
>> but equally I dont mind being told that @rend wipes out @style/@rendition
>
> I would argue against this. I can envision quite easily a project
> workflow where one person is adding @rend values from a
> constrained list because that is all they are capable and someone
> else is looking at _different_ features and adding @rendtion
> rules because they know XSL-FO in the same project.  Ok, the
> @rend values may be converted at a later point to @rendition for
> consistency but it should not be seen and wrong or bad practice
> to have both.
>
> But again, you are interpreting based on your need and fears of
> implementation in the stylesheet suite. (Which is good, laudable,
> and understandable.) But we can't let stylesheet implementation
> drive the definition of the documentation aspect of this. The
> user is documenting their interpretation of the original, not
> coding to a particular output. Or at least, they *shouldn't* be
> and one of my arguments against @style was that I feel it
> encourages this, especially in processing born digital documents.

>
> -James
>

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)