[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 18 Dec 2012, at 17:36, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
 wrote:
> I think the scenarios we should be thinking about here are
> 
>  - Born-digital documents that include media files (e.g. journal 
> articles including audio or video).

exactly. where the original _does_ have the control and annotation
features present and you want to capture them. you just end up
passing everything off to @rend and @rendition and @style,
and I doubt they are powerful enough to cope with all that. After all,
if they were expressible in CSS, HTML5 would not have included all that jazz, surely?

The document you are describing in TEI  may have an _authorial_  decision as to
whether a video should loop or not when being played. It is the usual
@rend stuff.

I betcha that when we added <graphic> someone said "why isn't it <media> (vel sim)"
and a sage someone said "ah now, graphics are easy, but video and audio are harder,
steer clear". Whether that someone was me, Lou, Syd, or my fevered imagination
I don't know.

what the heck. i have the code ready for audio and video anyway, cos I just
abuse <graphic> :-}
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