Bare Bones TEI
A Very Very Small Subset
of the TEI Encoding Scheme
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Document No. TEI U6
30 Aug 1994, rev. June 1995
Table of Contents
1 Preface
3 Bare-Bones SGML
4 Basic Text Encoding
4.2 Highlighted Phrases
4.3 Quotations
4.4 Cross References
4.5 Page Breaks
4.6 Verse
4.7 Drama
4.8 Bibliographic References
4.9 Omissions
4.10 Notes
4.11 Lists
4.12 What Is Missing?
5 Overall Structure of a Text
5.2 Text Divisions
5.3 Title Pages
6 The TEI Header
7 Putting It All Together
8 A Complete Example
9 A More Interesting Example
10 What About Software?
11 Summary of the Bare Bones TEI Subset
11.2 Formal Declarations
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