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On Wed, Sep 17 2008 10:03:53 +0100, mike@s... wrote: >> The TEI folks call what I call "marking up" >> and some call "tagging" by the name of >> "encoding" and they hire folks to "encode" >> historical documents. > > Well, any community is entitled to its own jargon, but this seems poorly > chosen. If the process involves changing "Gloucestershire" to When the name of the project is "Text Encoding Initiative", what would you expect them to call the action? "Texting"? "Initiativating"? When it involves producing computer-sensible markup corresponding to squiggles on a page -- including markup for notes scrawled in margins, crossings out, coffee stains (maybe?), etc. -- then "encoding" may not be too far off the mark. Regards, Tony Graham Tony.Graham@M... Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert Menteith Consulting Ltd XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- xmlroff XSL Formatter http://xmlroff.org xslide Emacs mode http://www.menteith.com/wiki/xslide Unicode: A Primer urn:isbn:0-7645-4625-2
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