Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> writes:
Bowerbird wrote:
jeroen said:
Some have argued (with valid reasons) that the entire idea of TEI markup is broken, and have proposed systems in which the mark-up is separated from the text (stream of characters), in such a way that multiple, parallel systems of mark-up can exist. Think of a separate (part of a) file, saying characters 21 to 34 are italics, and so on. This may sound odd, but it is the way the old Macintosh wordprocessor MacWrite worked.
About two years ago I was playing around with the same idea. My solution was to take a CSS approach to layering. CSS places an external layer of formating instructions on top of a text, so why not extend CSS to also be able to add layers of semantic markup to a text? This would make it easy to add semantic markup including glosses, notes, comments (scholia) etc to a text, even it the text is located on a server somewhere on the Net. The folks doing the Hypereal Dictionary of Mathematics are creating a scholia system based on Emacs text properties to add layers of scholia to texts. b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand