[tei-council] tagUsage/@render

[Lou Burnard]

On 20/12/12 17:13, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Looking at the chapter, though, I see this example:
>
> <said rend="PRE+lsquo POST+rsquo">
>
> while in the said.xml, we have this:
>
> <said aloud="true" rend="pre(“) post(”)">
>
> I wonder if we should be consistent there? Although anything token-like
> goes in @rend, people tend to think of examples in the Guidelines as a
> bit authoritative, so it might be confusing to see two ways of doing the
> same thing.

Sebastian raised the same point when we were talking about these <said> 
examples a week or two ago. It might b e a good idea to add an example 
using @render with predefined CSS or @style with non-predefined CSS if 
that's the example we think we'd rather people followed.


| I still have trouble disambiguating <q> from <said>, and <q> from 
<quote>. I have malicious thoughts towards <q>.

This maybe is something you should share with your confessor. Happy to 
help out if you need explanation...

Lou


Cheers, Martin On 12-12-20 08:35 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> On 20 Dec 2012, at 16:29, James Cummings <james.cummings at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Are we entirely agreed about this, that the long-standing phrase "_ is to be_ rendered." is not what
>>>>> we intend?
>>>> I agree. I thought all the various rendition-related stuff was designed
>>>> to describe what the source document looked like.
>>> I agree certainly, as I've argued many times all rendition in TEI
>>> should be about the source document
>> tagUsage/@render is now in line, as per John McC's wording in SF ticket.
>>
>> someone want to look at http://bits.nsms.ox.ac.uk:8080/jenkins/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-said.html
>> and see if they like the examples of quotation marks? would you rather these appear in the main chapter?
>> --
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