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Subject:      Draft TRW3 - Basic Typographic Features - comments welcome
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Text Encoding Initiative Working Paper TR W3

Short list of basic typographic features

Susan Hockey  29 November 1989

This is a very short list, but it seems to me to cover everything we
need to worry about here.

1) italic
2) bold
3) bold italic
4) small capitals
5) indent left
6) indent right

For left indents it may be necessary to distinguish between indent for one
line (as at the beginning of a paragraph) and indent until indent is
cancelled, i.e. a block of text indented.

There are two other items which might be considered.

1) specification of typeface (i.e. Times, Univers etc, or at a lower
level serif and sans-serif). This needs to be handled somewhere by TR
because of its relevance for representing the physical appearance of
e.g. old printed texts etc. The question here is whether it is a *basic*
typographical feature.

2) size (width) of indent and possibility of multiple (incremental
indents). Again this is probably only relevant for specific text types.
Measurements to be given in picas/points, or inches or cm.