This version of the TEI introduces new features and resolves
a number of issues raised by the TEI community. As always, the
majority of these changes and corrections are a consequence of
feature requests or bugs reported by the TEI community using the
SourceForge tracking system. If you find something you think
needs to change in the TEI Guidelines, schemas, tools, or
website, please submit a feature request or bug ticket at [http://tei.sf.net/](http://tei.sf.net/) for
consideration. Lists of [closed bugs](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/search/?q=status%3Aclosed-wont-fix+or+status%3Aclosed-rejected+or+status%3Aclosed-out-of-date+or+status%3Aclosed-accepted+or+status%3Aclosed-works-for-me+or+status%3Aclosed+or+status%3Aclosed-duplicate+or+status%3Aclosed-invalid+or+status%3Aclosed-fixed) and [closed feature requests](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/search/?q=status%3Aclosed-wont-fix+or+status%3Aclosed-later+or+status%3Aclosed-rejected+or+status%3Aclosed-out-of-date+or+status%3Aclosed-accepted+or+status%3Aclosed-remind+or+status%3Aclosed+or+status%3Aclosed-duplicate+or+status%3Aclosed-invalid+or+status%3Aclosed-fixed) are available on the site. The
software provided by SourceForge has changed and some old URLs
for tickets may eventually break (they currently forward). This
new system gives much more readable URLs (e.g.
http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/445/) and so Council has
stopped using the purl URLs (e.g.
http://purl.org/tei/bugs/3572502) created as shortcuts to
SourceForge's previously long URLs. As part of this software
change users who check out a copy of the TEI-C Subversion
repository must update its location to that provided at [http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/code/](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/code/).
Some of the highlights of the TEI P5 2.4.0 release include:
- A new simplified index/table-of-contents page for the
web version of the Guidelines was created
- A very large number of typos fixed, prose clarification,
and formatting issues have been solved. Of particular note are
the contributions by Martin Holmes and Jens Østergaard
Petersen in finding typos
- The addition, revision, and correction of numerous
examples throughout the prose and reference pages for
consistency or clarity
- The Representation of Non-standard
Characters and Glyphs chapter was renamed Non-standard Characters and Glyphs
- Element sex and attributes value and
sex were changed to allow more inclusive values
(per
[FR
425](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/425/))
- Usage of app with no lem or just
note explained and illustrated (per
[BUG
366](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/366/))
- Suggested values for unit on
biblScope, citedRange, and
relatedUnit modified for consistency (per
[FR
429](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/429/))
- The am element now claims membership to
att.typed (per
[FR
449](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/449/)
- The pc element is now allowed inside
pc (per
[Bugs
566](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/566/))
- A clarification of the conformance requirement for order
of children in publicationStmt (per
[Bugs
468](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/468/))
- The stage element is now a member of
att.ascribed (per
[FR
441](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/441/))
- The content model of the eg element was
significantly loosened to allow use for the display and
formatting of modern code examples (per
[FR
430](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/430/))
- The discussion of substJoin was clarified (per
[FR
448](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/448/))
- A number of changes to loosen content models, mostly
driven by experience of TCP EEBO project:
- allow a teiCorpus to have facsimile
and sourceDoc children, like TEI (per
[FR 456](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/456/))
- loosen content model of cell to make it the
same as p (per
[FR
455](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/455/))
- expand content model of figure to allow more
components (per
[FR
454](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/454/))
- allow foreign to contain q (per
[FR
442](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/442/))
- allow epigraph at end of front (per
[FR
434](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/434/))
- Implementation of a new notation in the specifications
for previously deprecated elements and attributes, which now
have a
valid until
date recorded:
- targets on alt, join, and
link
- type on biblScope
- form on quotation
- status on members of att.identified
- relationGrp
- A number of Schematron constraints, as well as
modifications to the TEI Guidelines building and testing
process, were added, revised, or removed
- As part of continuing improvements to the build process,
all of the source files for the TEI Guidelines now use an
xml-model processing instruction to point to the
last successful build of an NVDL schema
- A change to Guidelines practice in the use of
type vs rend as part an ongoing
discussion of consistency of terminology (
[Bugs
460](http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/460/))
- Addition of remarks in the specifications (displayed as
a
Note
) for practices that have been deemed no
longer recommended:
- key on members of att.canonical
- use of entry without at least one
sense
Since the last P5 release, several releases have also been
made to the family of XSL stylesheets maintained for the TEI,
largely fixing bugs in conversion to ePub, and to or from Word
docx format.
A new translation of the TEI Lite tutorial into French has
been completed, and is now included in the Exemplars directory.
The French translations for a number of element descriptions
were corrected at the same time. Unlike earlier versions, this
version of the TEI Lite tutorial now uses only French language
examples.