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Revision as of 02:23, 11 December 2012

Text Directionality Workgroup

This page will summarize the evolving work of the Text Directionality Workgroup, tasked by the TEI Council with developing a new section for the Guidelines on recommendations for encoding a variety of textual features related to text directionality and orientation. The related SourceForge ticket is [http://purl.org/tei/fr/3475007].

Workgroup Members

  • Martin Holmes (TEI Council)
  • Deborah W. Anderson (Unicode Consortium)
  • Robert Whalen (Northern Michigan University)
  • Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University)
  • Stella Dee (King's College, London)

Order of Tasks

  • Enumerate textual features to be covered
  • Collate existing standards and recommendations and relate them to features
  • Identify any gaps which might require new TEI elements or attributes
  • Outline the new section
  • Write the first draft for consideration by Council
  • Identify other places in the Guidelines where information or links need to be included

Mailing List

The group has a mailing list provided through Brown University at http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TEI-DIR-WG.

Useful documents