Lists often appear in our texts, and where these are block-level lists (each item
appears on a new line), we encode them with the TEI
<list> and
<item> elements:
<list rend="bulleted">
<item>
<seg xml:lang="la">nibi efficcamini sicut parvuli, non intrabitis in regnum coloram</seg>
</item>
<item>
<seg xml:lang="la">de <abbr>al.</abbr>
<unclear>saentiarum</unclear>, dominus est</seg>
</item>
<item>
<seg xml:lang="la">o <unclear>ongo</unclear> studys semper desta meis</seg>
</item>
</list>
The
rend attribute can take three values:
- simple: The list will be rendered without numbers or bullets.
- bulleted: The list will be rendered with disc bullets.
- numbered: The list will be numbered automatically.
In the cases of
bulleted and
numbered, there is no need to insert anything into the transcription for bullets or numbers,
since the symbols will be inserted automatically by the browser. We do not normally
distinguish between common types of bullet; if the scribe happens to use asterisks
for this function, we simply use
rend=
bulleted and reproduce these as discs. However, if (for example) the numbering in the text
is wrong, then you will have to use
rend=
simple, and then manually insert the incorrect numbers in the transcription, since the browser
can only really number things correctly.