Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
second, since you regularly assert your insistence that markup must be "semantic" rather than "presentational", can you elucidate the structural aspects that typically should be marked up in books? that list would include things like chapter-headings, footnotes, block-quotes; and what else? would also be nice if you could say _how_ these things should be marked up, with actual examples, but since even the .tei experts can't seem to agree on it...
Hmm, I've yet to find a TEI "expert" that doesn't agree on the fundamental markups. <p></p> is a paragraph container. <head></head> for a divisional (chapter, section, part, etc) heading. <note place="foot"></note> for a footnote. * replace "foot" with "margin" or "endnote" as appropriate for other note markers. <quote rend="display"></quote> for a block quote. <figure url="file_name"></figure> for an inline illustration. *** The problems with TEI don't tend to lie in the markup, but rather in the conversion of said markup to a final presentation format. And usually then it is in markup that requires a bit of intelligence on the part of the rendering engine ... like complex tables, for instance. Josh