Text Directionality Workgroup

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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.

Examples of primary sources

This section collects together some examples of primary sources which our discussion can reference. We aim to collect useful examples of some straightforward cases, but also of some edge cases which our proposal must be able to handle. Some of these may be used as examples in a final draft of the new section of the Guidelines.


Useful documents

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