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Tilly asked a good question about rendition:
>Should rendition attribute values preferably be integrated in tags?:
>1. <head rend=`bold centered'> Much about nothing </head>
>or can they be represented in separate tags as in:
>2. <hi=`bold centered'><head> Much about nothing</head></hi>
>or
>3. <head><hi=`bold centered'>Much about nothing</hi></head>
As so often in the TEI, the honest answer is "yes, all three", and yes,
the Guidelines do offer some remarks to assist you in choosing between
them: see the discussion on pp 144-5. Briefly, if you are primarily
interested in the fact that something is bold-centered, and are not
interested or able to decide that it is also a heading, you should
simply use the <hi> element. If you are more interested in the fact that
it's a head, use option 1 above. If you are interested in the fact that
it's a head, which happens to contain some parts highlighted, use option
3. Option 3 may in fact be essential in some cases -- for example, there
is a well-known British Newspaper, whose front page might quite
reasonably be tagged
<head><hi rend=slant>The</hi> <hi rend=bold>Guardian</hi></head>
>If 1.(integration) is preferred, this will probably cause problems for
>the automatic conversion of WP-codes to TEI-tags?
Why? If you are doing any kind of automatic conversion from WP-codes,
you will have problems with the introduction of descriptive markup (like
<head>) no matter which option you choose.
>If separation (2.and 3) is allowed, is one of them preferred to the
>other?
I indicated a preference above: this is based on the observation that
(in my experience) variation in highlighting within a given type of
object (e.g. a heading) is more common than variation in the kind of
object within a given type of highlighting.
Other views?
Lou Burnard
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