Text Directionality Workgroup

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)
• [others coming soon]

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