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Tagging Texts
- Choosing a TEI subset (e.g. go to Roma and construct one)
- Starting a new document
- Tagging an existing document
- The TEI header
- Applying specific tags
Starting a new document
- Oxygen allows creation of new documents through templates (File->New from templates)
- User can also define there own templates:
- Create a new document and add all markup and text that should appear in all documents created from this template
- Add this to the list of templates (File -> Add to temple)
Tagging an existing document
- Oxygen has a number of useful functions for changing existing markup
- These functions are listed under `Document -> XML refactoring'
- Existing non-XML documents can comparatively easily converted to XML by:
- adding the required header
- adding the outer layers up to the first paragraph
- then use the `split element' command to tag every paragraph
The TEI Header
- The TEI Header is much more strictly regulated than
any other part of TEI.
- Oxygen can greatly help with editing the TEI Header
by inserting all required elements.
- Some of the elements need to be filled in, others
added.
Applying specific tags
Some parts of the TEI markup describes the structure of a
text, other parts are used to encode features of a text.
Experience has shown that the following procedure
circumvents a lot of problems:
- Don't try to tag everything you won't to tag in one
run.
- First put in all the structural tags that describe
the components of the document clearly and indisputable
visible in the text.
- In successive runs, specific features can be marked,
where the document analysis showed they are
required.
- In some cases, a branching is possible for e.g.
linguistic and historic markup. Consider using a version
control system in these cases.
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