Text Encoding Initiative
	TEI U5: Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI

Contents

• Prefatory note

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Short Example
• 3. The Structure of a TEI Text
• 4. Encoding the Body
  • 4.1. Text Division Elements
  • 4.2. Headings and Closings
  • 4.3. Prose, Verse and Drama
• 5. Page and Line Numbers
• 6. Marking Highlighted Phrases
  • 6.1. Changes of Typeface, etc.
  • 6.2. Quotations and Related Features
  • 6.3. Foreign Words or Expressions
• 7. Notes
• 8. Cross References and Links
  • 8.1. Simple Cross References
  • 8.2. Extended Pointers
  • 8.3. Linking Attributes
• 9. Editorial Interventions
• 10. Omissions, Deletions, and Additions
• 11. Names, Dates, Numbers and Abbreviations
  • 11.1. Names and Referring Strings
  • 11.2. Dates and Times
  • 11.3. Numbers
  • 11.4. Abbreviations and their Expansion
  • 11.5. Addresses
• 12. Lists
• 13. Bibliographic Citations
• 14. Tables
• 15. Figures and Graphics
• 16. Interpretation and Analysis
  • 16.1. Orthographic Sentences
  • 16.2. General-Purpose Interpretation Elements
• 17. Technical Documentation
  • 17.1. Additional Elements for Technical Documents
  • 17.2. Generated Divisions
  • 17.3. Index Generation
• 18. Character Sets, Diacritics, etc.
• 19. Front and Back Matter
  • 19.1. Front Matter
    • 19.1.1. Title Page
    • 19.1.2. Prefatory Matter
  • 19.2. Back Matter
    • 19.2.1. Structural Divisions of Back Matter
• 20. The Electronic Title Page
  • 20.1. The File Description
    • 20.1.1. The Title Statement
    • 20.1.2. The Edition Statement
    • 20.1.3. The Extent Statement
    • 20.1.4. The Publication Statement
    • 20.1.5. Series and Notes Statements
    • 20.1.6. The Source Description
  • 20.2. The Encoding Description
    • 20.2.1. Project and Sampling Descriptions
    • 20.2.2. Editorial Declarations
    • 20.2.3. Tagging, Reference, and Classification Declarations
  • 20.3. The Profile Description
  • 20.4. The Revision Description

• Appendix A List of Elements Described
  • Appendix A.1 Global Attributes
  • Appendix A.2 Elements in TEI Lite

This document provides an introduction to the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), by describing a manageable subset of the full TEI encoding scheme. The scheme documented here can be used to encode a wide variety of commonly encountered textual features, in such a way as to maximize the usability of electronic transcriptions and to facilitate their interchange among scholars using different computer systems. It is also fully compatible with the full TEI scheme, as defined by TEI document P4, Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, published in May 2002, and available from the TEI Consortium website at .