PART II: Core Tags and General Rules

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4: Characters and Character Sets

• 4.1: Local Character Sets
  • 4.1.1: Characters Available Locally
  • 4.1.2: Characters Not Available Locally

• 4.2: Shifting Among Character Sets
• 4.3: Character Set Problems in Interchange
• 4.4: The Writing System Declaration

5: The TEI Header

• 5.1: Organization of the TEI Header
  • 5.1.1: The TEI Header and Its Components
  • 5.1.2: Types of Content in the TEI Header

• 5.2: The File Description
  • 5.2.1: The Title Statement
  • 5.2.2: The Edition Statement
  • 5.2.3: Type and Extent of File
  • 5.2.4: Publication, Distribution, etc.
  • 5.2.5: The Series Statement
  • 5.2.6: The Notes Statement
  • 5.2.7: The Source Description
  • 5.2.8: Computer Files Derived from Other Computer Files
  • 5.2.9: Computer Files Composed of Transcribed Speech

• 5.3: The Encoding Description
  • 5.3.1: The Project Description
  • 5.3.2: The Sampling Declaration
  • 5.3.3: The Editorial Practices Declaration
  • 5.3.4: The Tagging Declaration
  • 5.3.5: The Reference System Declaration
    • 5.3.5.1: Prose Method
    • 5.3.5.2: Stepwise Method
    • 5.3.5.3: Milestone Method

• 5.3.6: The Classification Declaration
• 5.3.7: The Feature System Declaration
• 5.3.8: The Metrical Declaration Element
• 5.3.9: The Variant-Encoding Method Element

• 5.4: The Profile Description
  • 5.4.1: Creation
  • 5.4.2: Language Usage
  • 5.4.3: The Text Classification

• 5.5: The Revision Description
• 5.6: Minimal and Recommended Headers
• 5.7: Note for Library Cataloguers

6: Elements Available in All TEI Documents

• 6.1: Paragraphs
• 6.2: Treatment of Punctuation
• 6.3: Highlighting and Quotation
  • 6.3.1: What Is Highlighting?
  • 6.3.2: Emphasis, Foreign Words, and Unusual Language
    • 6.3.2.1: Foreign Words or Expressions
    • 6.3.2.2: Emphatic Words and Phrases
    • 6.3.2.3: Other Linguistically Distinct Material
  • 6.3.3: Quotation
  • 6.3.4: Terms, Glosses, and Cited Words
  • 6.3.5: Some Further Examples

• 6.4: Names, Numbers, Dates, Abbreviations, and Addresses
  • 6.4.1: Referring Strings
  • 6.4.2: Addresses
  • 6.4.3: Numbers and Measures
  • 6.4.4: Dates and times
  • 6.4.5: Abbreviations and Their Expansions

• 6.5: Simple Editorial Changes
  • 6.5.1: Correction of Apparent Errors
  • 6.5.2: Regularization and Normalization
  • 6.5.3: Additions, Deletions and Omissions

• 6.6: Simple Links and Cross References
• 6.7: Lists
• 6.8: Notes, Annotation, and Indexing
  • 6.8.1: Notes and Simple Annotation
  • 6.8.2: Index Entries

• 6.9: Reference Systems
  • 6.9.1: Using the ID and N Attributes
  • 6.9.2: Creating New Reference Systems
  • 6.9.3: Milestone Tags
  • 6.9.4: Declaring Reference Systems

• 6.10: Bibliographic Citations and References
  • 6.10.1: Elements of Bibliographic References
  • 6.10.2: Components of Bibliographic References
    • 6.10.2.1: Analytic, Monographic, and Series Levels
    • 6.10.2.2: Authors, Titles, and Editors
    • 6.10.2.3: Imprint, Pagination, and Other Details
    • 6.10.2.4: Series Information
    • 6.10.2.5: Notes and Other Additional Information
    • 6.10.2.6: Order of Components within References
  • 6.10.3: Bibliographic Pointers
  • 6.10.4: Relationship to Other Bibliographic Schemes

• 6.11: Passages of Verse or Drama
  • 6.11.1: Core Tags for Verse
  • 6.11.2: Core Tags for Drama

• 6.12: Overview of the Core Tag Set

7: Default Text Structure

• 7.1: Divisions of the Body
  • 7.1.1: Un-numbered Divisions
  • 7.1.2: Numbered Divisions
  • 7.1.3: Numbered or Un-numbered?
  • 7.1.4: Partial and Composite Divisions

• 7.2: Elements Common to All Divisions
  • 7.2.1: Headings and Trailers
  • 7.2.2: Openers and Closers
  • 7.2.3: Arguments and Epigraphs
  • 7.2.4: Content of Textual Divisions

• 7.3: Groups of Texts
• 7.4: Front Matter
• 7.5: Title Pages
• 7.6: Back Matter
• 7.7: DTD Fragment for Default Text Structure