TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
Creators: name: TEI Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Text Encoding
Digital Humanities
Text Encoding Initiative

description: Release 4.6.0 is codenamed ‘The Peace Release’. This release introduces new features and resolves a number of issues raised by the TEI community. As always, the majority of these changes and corrections are a consequence of feature requests or bugs reported by the TEI community using the GitHub tracking system. A full list of the issues resolved in the course of this release cycle may be found under the 4.6.0 milestone. The ‘Peace Release’ delivers a new Roma v1.0.0, available at https://roma.tei-c.org/. TEI Roma now has a localized user interfaces for English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Japanese, with thanks to translators listed on the home page. The original Roma remains available at http://romaantiqua.tei-c.org/. The following changes are particularly worth highlighting in this release: New encoding features The calendar element is now a member of att.typed, giving it the type and subtype attributes (#2396). The lg element may now contain any of the members of model.pPart.transcriptional, including supplied, redo, and damage (#2242). The gender attribute has been added to the elements in model.castItem.part and the sex attribute to the actor element for the encoding of cast lists in performance texts (#2400). vColl elements may now self-nest, so that the TEI specifications match the Guidelines prose (2034). Changes to content models It is anticippated that in a future relase the content model of the content element will require that it have one and only one child element (#2381). Thus a Schematron warning for ODD writers about this upcoming change has been added to this release (PR #2410). Changes to classes The model.glossLike class (which contained altIdent, equiv, and gloss) has been renamed to model.identSynonyms. Improvements of prose and examples The biblStruct element now has a new example featuring the use of a type attribute (#1773). An outdated link in an example in att.global was updated with a new example from a current archive, and the Bibliography was updated to reflect the change (#2366). A misrepresented source for an example in the Manuscript Description chapter was corrected (#2372). To improve consistency, many desc elements were converted to gloss elements and vice versa, and underscores were removed from glosses in several element specifications (PR #2388). The explanation of the attribute ns has been clarified in att.namespaceable to indicate more precisely that it refers to an element being defined (#2395). In addition, several typos, unclear expressions, and faulty encodings have been corrected (#2252, #2403, #2387, #2225, PR #2375, #2356). Housekeeping The TEI oXygen framework has been updated to accomodate the fact that versions 25+ of oXygen use Saxon 11 (#2251) The title elements with ref attributes used to refer from the Guidelines to some external standards have been replaced with ref elements with target attributes both for internal consistency of encoding and to ensure their values are properly processed as links (#2368). In addition, many improvements have been made to the XSLT stylesheets (which provide processing of TEI ODD files for Roma and TEIGarage as well as other TEI conversions). The Stylesheets are maintained separately from the Guidelines at https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets. A full list of the issues resolved in the course of this release cycle may be found under the 7.55.0 milestone.