Common Rendition Keywords and Arguments
| Keyword | Arguments | Comments |
| align | left | center | right | outside | inside | Don’t confuse this with justification |
| bestow, bequeath | (rendladder) (element names) | Can take multiple element names separated by spaces |
| case | allcaps | smallcaps | mixed | lower | |
| face | blackletter | roman | Used only for texts containing blackletter; textbase-wide default is face(roman) |
| slant | italic | upright | |
| first-indent | number |
Governs the first line of a multi-line element. Can take either absolute values (unsigned) or relative values (with + or -). |
| indent | number | Can take either absolute values (unsigned) or relative values (with + or -). |
| place | infra | supra | inline | -used with <add>, describes position in relation to line of text |
| left | right | top | bottom | outside | inside |
-used with <note>, describes which margin they appear in |
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| inset-left | inset-right | inset-outside | inset-inside |
-used with <note>, describes notes which are set into the text block |
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| opposite | overleaf |
-used for features which appear on a different page |
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| headspace | footspace |
-indicates running head/foot area |
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| foot | end | mixed |
-footnote area; endnote; jumble |
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| surround | -for <mw>; content is page border | |
| pos | up | down | Used with <lb> for turned lines |
| post | string | Any string that does not include special characters: ’ " = ( ) < > |
| pre | string | Any string that does not include special characters: ’ " = ( ) < > |
| sub | no argument | Indicates that the encoded content is subscripted; remember the parentheses: sub() |
| sup | no argument | Indicates that the encoded content is superscripted; remember the parentheses: sup() |
