RENAISSANCE ELECTRONIC TEXTS: ENCODING GUIDELINES

by Ian Lancashire

Renaissance Electronic Texts Supplementary Studies 1

Centre for Computing in the Humanities
University of Toronto

copyright 1994 Ian Lancashire

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ISBN 1-896016-00-6
MADE IN CANADA

EDITORIAL BOARD

Jonquil Bevan (Edinburgh)
David Bevington (Chicago)
M. di Cesare (SUNY Binghamton)
R. Flannagan (Ohio)
A. Fox (Otago)
A. C. Hamilton (Queen's)
A. F. Kinney (Massachusetts)
R. McLeod (Toronto)
H. J. Neuhaus (M{:u}nster)
D. M. O'Brien (Glasgow)
Marion O'Connor (Canterbury)
R. A. Shoaf (Florida-Gainesville)
Suzanne Woods (Franklin and Marshall College)

PREFACE

This is the first version of the RET guidelines. I would like to thank members of the Editorial Board for comments on the first draft, and Jeffery Triggs, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, and John Lavagnino for assistance.

Table of Contents

• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. GENERAL RULES FOR TRANSCRIPTION
• 3.1 ENCODING: SGML Tags
• 3.2 COCOA Tags
• 3.3 The TEI Guidelines
• 4.1 THE RENAISSANCE CHARACTER SET: Introduction
• 4.2 Computer Representation
• 4.3 Letter-numbers
• 4.4 Punctuation, Delimiters, and Other Marks
• 4.5 Graphics
• 4.6 Abbreviations
• 4.7 Delimiters
• 5. RET TAGS
• 5.1 Global Tags
• 5.2 Feature Tags
• 5.3 Structural Tags
• 5.4 Word-level Tags
• 6. TAGGING EXAMPLES
• 6.1 Abstracts, Arguments, and Summaries
• 6.2 Acts, Scenes, and Classical Scenes
• 6.3 Closings, Colophons, Epilogues, and Explicits
• 6.4 Columns
• 6.5 Comments
• 6.6 Corrections
• 6.7 Damaged Text
• 6.8 Dedication, Epigraph, Epistle, Letter, Preface, and Prologue
• 6.9 Dedicatory Poems
• 6.10 Diacritics
• 6.11 Dictionary Entries
• 6.12 Divisions
• 6.13 Dramatis Personae
• 6.14 Errata
• 6.15 Font
• 6.16 Headings and Subheadings
• 6.17 Language Shift
• 6.18 Milestones
• 6.19 Names
• 6.20 Notes, End-, Foot-, and Marginal
• 6.21 Ornaments, Leaves, and Lines
• 6.22 Paragraphing
• 6.23 Printer's Business
• 6.24 Quotations
• 6.25 Scribe's Business
• 6.26 Speeches and Speech Prefixes
• 6.27 Stage Directions
• 6.28 Stanzas and Rhyme
• 6.29 Table of Contents
• 6.30 Title Pages
• 6.31 Variants, Press and Textual
• 6.32 Verse and Prose
• 6.33 Words Cited as Objects
• 6.34 Words Hung and Split between Pages
• 6.35 X-References and Hypertext
• Bibliography
• Appendix 1: The RET/TEI Header
• Appendix 2: Document-Type Definitions