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Re: [docbook] DocBook and TEI P5

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Martin Holmes <>
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2006-06-26T18:59:22+00:00
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Re: [docbook] DocBook and TEI P5
I think that's exactly what I need to do. Many thanks!

Cheers,
Martin

Fabian Mandelbaum wrote:
> maybe emphasis with a role="bold", role="italic", role="underline" plus 
> stylesheets for proper rendering of this 'specialization' of the 
> emphasis tag?
> 
> Just a quick wild guess...
> 
> On 6/26/06, *Martin Holmes* < <mailto:>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi there,
> 
>     I'm writing an application which saves files in both TEI (Text-Encoding
>     Initiative) P5 XML format, and in DocBook (v5). I'm trying to create a
>     mapping of basic tags in the two formats, so that round-tripping is
>     possible with simple documents. I wonder if anyone familiar with both
>     TEI and DocBook could help with this simple question:
> 
>     Among the most commonly-used tags in TEI are format-related tags
>     such as:
> 
>     <hi rend="bold">
>     <hi rend="italics">
>     <hi rend="underline">
> 
>     (For purists not familiar with TEI, I should point out that it's often
>     used to digitize existing books and manuscripts, and these tags are
>     used
>     to describe the style of text in the source document.)
> 
>     Is there any DocBook equivalent I could use? I haven't found anything so
>     shamelessly style-related (which is quite proper, given the purpose and
>     nature of DocBook). Can anyone suggest any alternative way of turning
>     such tags into acceptable DocBook markup?
> 
>     All help appreciated,
>     Martin
> 
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>     Martin Holmes
>     University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
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