Descriptive Markup

Julia Flanders

2007-05-13/14

  1. What is text encoding?
  2. Text encoding in the ancient world
  3. Text encoding in the early modern world
  4. Text encoding in the digital world
  5. Descriptive versus procedural markup
  6. The Rhetoric of Descriptive Markup
  7. Advantages of descriptive markup
  8. Additional assumptions
  9. Some complications
  10. Motives for Text Encoding
  11. Text Encoding is Never Simple
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