TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (P4)
PART II: Core Tags and General Rules

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• PART II: Core Tags and General Rules
• 2.1. Languages and Character Sets
• 2.1.1. A simple character encoding model
• 2.1.1.1. Some definitions
• 2.1.1.2. Characters and glyphs
• 2.1.1.3. Characters and their encoding
• 2.1.1.4. Character semantics
• 2.1.1.5. Characters from the Private Usage Area
• 2.1.2. Entry and display of characters
• 2.1.2.1. Character input and entity references
• 2.1.2.2. Transliteration schemes
• 2.1.3. Code shifting
• 2.1.4. The Writing System Declaration
• 2.2. The TEI Header
• 2.2.1. Organization of the TEI Header
• 2.2.1.1. The TEI Header and Its Components
• 2.2.1.2. Types of Content in the TEI Header
• 2.2.2. The File Description
• 2.2.2.1. The Title Statement
• 2.2.2.2. The Edition Statement
• 2.2.2.3. Type and Extent of File
• 2.2.2.4. Publication, Distribution, etc.
• 2.2.2.5. The Series Statement
• 2.2.2.6. The Notes Statement
• 2.2.2.7. The Source Description
• 2.2.2.8. Computer Files Derived from Other Computer Files
• 2.2.2.9. Computer Files Composed of Transcribed Speech
• 2.2.3. The Encoding Description
• 2.2.3.1. The Project Description
• 2.2.3.2. The Sampling Declaration
• 2.2.3.3. The Editorial Practices Declaration
• 2.2.3.4. The Tagging Declaration
• 2.2.3.5. The Reference System Declaration
• 2.2.3.5.1. Prose Method
• 2.2.3.5.2. Stepwise Method
• 2.2.3.5.3. Milestone Method
• 2.2.3.6. The Classification Declaration
• 2.2.3.7. The Feature System Declaration
• 2.2.3.8. The Metrical Declaration Element
• 2.2.3.9. The Variant-Encoding Method Element
• 2.2.4. The Profile Description
• 2.2.4.1. Creation
• 2.2.4.2. Language Usage
• 2.2.4.3. The Text Classification
• 2.2.5. The Revision Description
• 2.2.6. Minimal and Recommended Headers
• 2.2.7. Note for Library Cataloguers
• 2.3. Elements Available in All TEI Documents
• 2.3.1. Paragraphs
• 2.3.2. Treatment of Punctuation
• 2.3.3. Highlighting and Quotation
• 2.3.3.1. What Is Highlighting?
• 2.3.3.2. Emphasis, Foreign Words, and Unusual Language
• 2.3.3.2.1. Foreign Words or Expressions
• 2.3.3.2.2. Emphatic Words and Phrases
• 2.3.3.2.3. Other Linguistically Distinct Material
• 2.3.3.3. Quotation
• 2.3.3.4. Terms, Glosses, and Cited Words
• 2.3.3.5. Some Further Examples
• 2.3.4. Names, Numbers, Dates, Abbreviations, and Addresses
• 2.3.4.1. Referring Strings
• 2.3.4.2. Addresses
• 2.3.4.3. Numbers and Measures
• 2.3.4.4. Dates and Times
• 2.3.4.5. Abbreviations and Their Expansions
• 2.3.5. Simple Editorial Changes
• 2.3.5.1. Correction of Apparent Errors
• 2.3.5.2. Regularization and Normalization
• 2.3.5.3. Additions, Deletions, and Omissions
• 2.3.6. Simple Links and Cross References
• 2.3.7. Lists
• 2.3.8. Notes, Annotation, and Indexing
• 2.3.8.1. Notes and Simple Annotation
• 2.3.8.2. Index Entries
• 2.3.9. Reference Systems
• 2.3.9.1. Using the ID and N Attributes
• 2.3.9.2. Creating New Reference Systems
• 2.3.9.3. Milestone Tags
• 2.3.9.4. Declaring Reference Systems
• 2.3.10. Bibliographic Citations and References
• 2.3.10.1. Elements of Bibliographic References
• 2.3.10.2. Components of Bibliographic References
• 2.3.10.2.1. Analytic, Monographic, and Series Levels
• 2.3.10.2.2. Authors, Titles, and Editors
• 2.3.10.2.3. Imprint, Pagination, and Other Details
• 2.3.10.2.4. Series Information
• 2.3.10.2.5. Notes and Other Additional Information
• 2.3.10.2.6. Order of Components within References
• 2.3.10.3. Bibliographic Pointers
• 2.3.10.4. Relationship to Other Bibliographic Schemes
• 2.3.11. Passages of Verse or Drama
• 2.3.11.1. Core Tags for Verse
• 2.3.11.2. Core Tags for Drama
• 2.3.12. Overview of the Core Tag Set
• 2.4. Default Text Structure
• 2.4.1. Divisions of the Body
• 2.4.1.1. Un-numbered Divisions
• 2.4.1.2. Numbered Divisions
• 2.4.1.3. Numbered or Un- numbered?
• 2.4.1.4. Partial and Composite Divisions
• 2.4.2. Elements Common to All Divisions
• 2.4.2.1. Headings and Trailers
• 2.4.2.2. Openers and Closers
• 2.4.2.3. Arguments and Epigraphs
• 2.4.2.4. Content of Textual Divisions
• 2.4.3. Groups of Texts
• 2.4.4. Front Matter
• 2.4.5. Title Pages
• 2.4.6. Back Matter
• 2.4.7. DTD Fragment for Default Text Structure