TEI Lite

TEI Lite is a specific customization of the TEI tagset, designed to meet "90% of the needs of 90% of the TEI user community". Due to its simplicity and the fact that it can be learned with relative ease, TEI Lite has been widely adopted, particularly by beginners and by big institutional projects that rely on large teams of encoders to markup their documents.

Current TEI Lite: P5

The current version of TEI Lite is derived from the P5 version of the Guidelines. It is available in the following formats:

TEI Lite P4

The P4 version of TEI Lite is still supported. It is available in these formats:

documentation

In English: in XML, HTML, or PDF
In Chinese: TEI Lite (P4) Revised Chinese Edition (Based on 後設資料工作組, 中央研究院, the translation by the Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT), Academia Sinica, Taipei; revised by: Marcus Bingenheimer, Huang Weining, Wang Meiyu and students of Xuanzang University).
In French: La TEI simplifiée: une introduction au codage des textes electroniques (translated by François Role; also available in PDF; and in TEI format)
In Italian: TEI Lite: introduzione alla codifica dei testi (translated by Fabio Ciotti et al); also published as Il manuale TEI Lite: introidusione alla condifica elettronica dei testi letterari (ed. F Ciotti, Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, 2005)
In Japanese: here
in Russian: here (only in RTF)
in Spanish: TEI U5: Etiquetado para el intercambio: una introducción al TEI (translated by Manuel Sánchez Quero; also available in XML)

extension files

derived ‘flattened’ schemas