The Etext Center Introduction To TEI And Guide To Document Preparation

These XML guidelines are an evolving document, written initially for in-house use at the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center and offered publicly to be a help for others embarking on Text Encoding Initiative text production. This draft previously referred to the SGML TEILITE.DTD but now refer to its XML counterpart, the TEIXLITE.DTD, a subset of the TEI tagset.

These guidelines cover not only tags and their usage, but offer suggestions on the processing of electronic texts and related images. The guidelines assume that the text in question is already in some electronic format; information on OCR scanning is available elsewhere in the Etext Center cluster of WWW documents.

• Introduction
• Basic Text-Processing Procedures at UVA
• A Short List of Basic but Crucial Tagging Procedures at UVA
  
  
• A Practical Introduction to the TEI Tag Set
  • The Major Structural Divisions
  • Attributes
  • Tagging of Smaller-Scale Elements

• The TEI header
  
  
• Front Matter
  • Attributes
  • Example of Encoded Title-page
  
  
• Body
  
  
• Back Matter
  • Attributes
  • Example of Encoded Back-matter

• Prose
  • Example of Tagged Prose
  
  
• Verse
  • Example of Tagged Verse
  
  
• Drama
  • Example of Tagged Drama

• Typography, pagination, lists, tables, notes, annotations
  • Typographic Tags
  • Paragraphs, quotations, page-breaks, epigraphs, and line groups
  • Tables and Lists
  • Notes & Annotations
  • Empty Tags
  
  
• Illustrations (includes "SGML Text Embedded in Image Files")
  • General Guidelines for Illustrations
  • Rules and Conventions About Scanning and Encoding Images
  • List of Tags for Illustrations
  • Examples of Illustrations

• Transcriptions
  • Procedures for Transcribing and Tagging Manuscripts

• Special Characters
  • A Full Set of ISO Special Character Codes
• ISO 639 Language Codes

• Appendix I: Notes on Text Formatting in UNIX
• Appendix II: Guidelines for creating recordable CD-ROMs

• Using Regular Expressions
  
  
• A Quick List of all TEI tags (with the TEILITE subset indicated)
  
  
• List of TEILITE Tags with guidance on their usage, excluding those in the header.
  
  
• The TEIXLITE.DTD (Version 1.3)
  
  
• The full TEI Guidelines (P4)
  
  
• The full TEI Guidelines (P3)

TEIXLITE version: Summer 2004
TEILITE version: Spring 1995.
OTA version revised Spring 1994.
1st draft: David Seaman, Spring 1993.