Basic TEI Tagging

Prose Basics

Very similar to HTML: the basic building blocks of prose texts

Intuitive tag names:

text body div head p list, item quote

Basic phrase-level elements Names: <name type="person">,

<name
          type="place">

Dates: <date value="2004-06-25"> Specialized elements: term, gloss, mentioned, distinct Emphasis: emph naïve highlighting: hi

Useful entity references — — < and > < and > Accented characters á á à à ä ä â â ã ã ç ç

Simple prose example… The Gettysburg Address

Fourscore and seven years ago,…

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Simple prose example with a list and names My trip out west

There are really five good reasons, at least, to like Urbana: The people The food The scenery The weather GSLIS!

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TEI Document Structures

The big picture…

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front, body, and back ]]>

Basic structure of div

Start with divtop stuff: opener (salutation, dateline ) head argument epigraph

…that is, things that belong at the top of a division

More div

Then the main part of the div Paragraphs Line groups Dramatic speeches Other chunky things

…that is, the stuff that goes in the middles of things

More div

Then end with divbot stuff: closer trailer byline salute dateline

…that is, the things that tend to come at the ends of divisions.

The catch…

Once you've had divbot, you can't go back to the things that go in the middle.

More complex encoding

Phrase-level markup

Names of various sorts: persName, placeName, orgName date and value Foreign words: foreign and the lang attribute Quotations: q and quote Bibliographic citations: bibl

Simple verse l as the fundamental unit: the verse line lg to encode groups of metrical lines with type to classify them

Poetry consists of lines of verse: l A bird came down the walk, He did not know I saw He bit an angleworm in half And ate the fellow raw.]]>

Verse lines form line groups: lg A bird came down the walk, He did not know I saw He bit an angleworm in half And ate the fellow raw. ]]>

The type= attribute gives detail A bird came down the walk, He did not know I saw He bit an angleworm in half And ate the fellow raw. ]]>

Drama

div type="act" and div type="scene" sp for dramatic speeches speaker for speaker labels stage for stage directions Inside sp, can use p or lg (for prose or verse)

Drama consists of speeches…

If you have that Art, it is an Art that only you, and no other man, hath as yet found out; but the best way is to woo her, and then wed her if you can.

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…and speakers… Worm-man

If you have that Art, it is an Art that only you, and no other man, hath as yet found out; but the best way is to woo her, and then wed her if you can.

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…and stage directions… Worm-man Insinuatingly

If you have that Art, it is an Art that only you, and no other man, hath as yet found out; but the best way is to woo her, and then wed her if you can.

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…more detail… Worm-man Insinuatingly

If you have that Art, it is an Art that only you, and no other man, hath as yet found out; but the best way is to woo her, and then wed her if you can.

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Drama can also be poetical Oberon I know a bank where the wild thyme blows Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite o'er-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. ]]>

Letters

opener serves to group together the things that happen at the top of letters: dateline salute byline

closer groups together the things that happen at the bottom of letters: dateline salute signed

Sample letter February 21, 2005, Cheltenham Lodge My dear Smitty,

What delightful piglets were born today!

Yours ever, Digbert

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