Copyleft 2006 Kevin S. Hawkins, Julia Flanders, and the Brown Women Writers Project
This is the source.
How to represent both the material and logical nature of the text
How to accommodate materiality in a representational system that gives primacy to information
How to formalize the material facts of the text
Note that these are really two separate, though closely related issues:
There are some aspects of the encoding of physical document structures which are common to print and MS documents, so we treat them together
Similarly, there are some issues having to do with our perception of the physical exemplar (esp. having to do with legibility and conjecture) that are common to both.
By and large, the TEI is focused, methodologically, on the text as
linguistic rather than material information: its encoding provisions for
genre, language, content are rich and detailed, while its provisions for
material information are fairly minimal. Textual materiality poses some
interesting conceptual problems for markup systems:
We raise these here mostly as signposts to issues that may be interesting, rather than trying to give an adequate treatment here; there's a lot of interesting debate on this topic and if you're interested we can provide some pointers
For now, we're just going to cover some practical encoding points.
TEI makes the logical structures primary.
The physical document can also be represented, typically as milestones:
In TEI, the primary emphasis of the encoding is on the text stream
(paragraphs, divisions, and so forth)
Note that the physical structure can also be represented as the primary
structure, for instance using
Note that you need to include the TEI module on Transcription of Primary Sources.
Note that for spans and handwriting identification, need to declare Chapter 18.
To identify the person whose handwriting is present, and also to provide
information about the handwriting (what style, what ink, etc.)