I apologize. The last paragraph attributed to Robert below is actually mine. * Bad mail editor. Bad. Go to your room. * Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net>

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Shimmin" <shimmin@uiuc.edu>

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The "standardization" is there ... it just doesn't go as far as to specify a > standard style sheet.

Now, the TEI has a "working" standard style sheet, but there have already been some changes identified in testing.

Once, we have the final transforms worked out, I plan on having an open call > for style sheets on DP.

I've worked on enough 'quirky' projects to think this a bad idea. The typesetters of the past did things that often make it a complete judgment call where the content stops and the presentation begins, and many projects will not fit on someone else's Procrustean notions of how a PG project 'should' be styled.

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From my experience, this is not the case and I've put together some very quirky ones into TEI already. I've picked one text with over 1,000 footnotes and over 500 sidenotes. It is complicated, but it renders beautifully. I've picked another text that uses editorial sidenotes running throughout a Middle English poem.

Both of these were great test cases that helped us identify bugs in the transform.

Now, this isn't to say the layout looks exactly like the original. It does not in many cases.

A sidenote in the margin is functionally the same as a sidenote that is floated as an inset on the side of the page. Worrying that the presentation of one matches the original book and one doesn't is irrelevant. The publisher probably didn't slavishly follow the layout the author wrote his original manuscript in either.

Now, do I agree that we will eventually find something that goes beyond what we've covered in the TEI spec? You better believe we will. But when that day comes, TEI can be expanded to cover the situation. Do I think this will be a common occurance? Not a chance.

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