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General idea: get the skeleton of the document, then fill in details
teiHeader - the TEI title pagebody- where does all the content go?div - structure the text according to its citation scheme.p - paragraphshead vs. titleq - quotationsterm - a word or technical term quoted as such.foreign - words or phrases in other languages than
the main textadd - editorial additions (Leiden convention:
pointy brackets, <>)del - editorial deletions (Leiden convention:
square brackets []). E.g., in Nepos, Themistocles:
Hic cum [propter multas eius virtutes] magna eum dignitate viveretwould be represented in TEI markup as:
Hic cum<del>propter multas eius virtutes</del>magna eum dignitate viveret
gap - lacunae
(Leiden convention: square brackets with dots [..] or numbers [ 12 ] indicating
approximate number of missing characters)One example: a reader/browser application that can link to other sources of information
Course materials and editions of ancient texts
on this web site are made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Web site last modified: July 13, 2006; installed on this server Fri, 14 Jul 2006