Hi Everyone,

I'll be presenting a poster at the TEIMM in November on the digital
facsimiles tagset and one thing I'd like to look at is changes that
could be  made to improve it. There are two real weaknesses that I
see. First, that we are limited to rectangular bounding boxes (unless
we use SVG), and second that there is no clear way to account for
non-horizontal text (text written sideways, upside down, diagonally,
in a spiral, etc.). These two issues overlap - a rectangular box
around text written diagonally across a page will include a lot of
unnecessary information.

Have you all on the list come across other things that you would like
to be able to do with the digital facsimiles tagset, but find that you
can't? If so, how have you dealt with it and what changes to the TEI
would you suggest?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Dot