This release (code name: Telstar) is the first in some time not to introduce any major new changes to the TEI Guidelines. The Council has focused mainly on fixing bugs and on tidying up parts of the Guidelines that needed attention.
Highlights of this release include:
- As part of this release, the TEI Debian packages will once more be available (#1441); see the TEI Debian Package page for instructions and pointers to both the .deb files themselves and to the new public PGP key.
- listRelation can now be used directly inside body (#1552), as well as anywhere else a list is permitted.
- lb, pb, and cb are now properly glossed as beginnings rather than as breaks (#1529).
- name and rs are now permitted in the content model of msName (#1597).
- The defective attribute may now be used on rubric, finalRubric, or colophon (#1642).
- msDesc can now take the status attribute (#1583).
- A new persona element has been added, to capture information about multiple personalities of a person (#498).
- A new element, annotationBlock, has been added for linguistic annotation of transcribed speech (#539).
- The Guidelines can once again be built while not online (#1602).
- note is now permitted in respStmt (#1557).
- Many improvements were made to Chapter 23
Using the TEI
(#1587, #1589, #1590, #1591 and #1595). - The place attribute can now appear on head (#1466).
- The affiliation, age, birth, death, education, faith, langKnowledge, nationality, occupation, residence, sex, and socecStatus elements are now members of att.typed, and thus now have type and subtype attributes (#1600)
- Some information about outdated XML processors has been removed from Chapter vi
Languages and Character Sets
(#1290); and other portions of that chapter have been removed or updated. - The hand attribute can now appear on postscript (#1530).
- Improved guidance on using xml:base (#1639).
- Continuing the efforts started at the TEI2German Translatathon from 2016, additional German translations have been added to the TEI specifications.
In addition, dozens of wording improvements and corrections of typographic errors have been made to the Guidelines.
Many improvements have been made to the XSLT stylesheets (which provide processing of TEI ODD files for Roma and OxGarage as well as other TEI conversions). The Stylesheets are maintained separately from the Guidelines and are at https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets.