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Reference information on editorial practices, TEI-encoding standards, and image sources.
TEI Style Manual
TEI encoding practices for the Knowledge Project.
TEI tag
Encoding instructions for the TEI tag

Reference
Reference information on editorial practices, TEI-encoding standards, and image sources.
- Editorial standards
  The following editorial principles are employed in creating this digital edition.
- Image Sources
  Bibliographic information on image sources.
- Naming Conventions
  Lists the naming conventions we use for editions, sections, folders, and files.
- TEI Style Manual
  TEI encoding practices for the Knowledge Project.
  - Author Names
    Encoding author initials at the end of entries.
  - Bidirectional Text
    Managing Hebrew and Arabic Text
  - Callouts
    How to encode callouts included in the text from the 11th ed. supplied by Project Gutenberg.
  - Choice
    Use <choice> to encode alternate versions
  - Citation, Drama, Speech, and Verse
    Encoding elements for verse and drama passages, planned for r2.
  - Cross References
    Encoding for cross references, planned for r2.
  - Entry Terms
    Encoding entry terms.
  - Foreign Text
    Tagging words or phrases in a different language, planned for r2.
  - Formulas
    Encoding math and chemical formulas in TEI, planned for r2.
  - Images
    Treatment of images in EB11 files from Project Gutenberg.
  - Keywords
    Working with indexing in TEI
  - Lists
    Formatting lists in TEI
  - Music
    Encoding musical notes and staffs, planned for r2.
  - Notes
    TEI encoding of foot- and marginal notes.
  - Page Numbers
    Specifies encoding method for page numbers in TEI.
  - Source Text Problems
    Indicate where text in the print edition is missing, illegible, or incorrect.
  - Subdivisions
    Encoding for subdivisions in entries, planned for r2.
  - TEI tag
    Encoding instructions for the TEI tag
  - Typographical Values
    TEI encoding we use for semantically significant typographical features, with their CSS equivalents.
- Unicode Characters
  List of Unicode characters and entities used frequently in the Encyclopedia and not on the standard US keyboard.

TEI tag

Encoding instructions for the TEI tag

`<TEI>`

Every TEI file begins with a <TEI> element containing three attributes:

<TEI xml:id="kp-eb0706-4127-0548-01" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">

@xml:id is the primary identifier for the entry. It is structured to provide useful information to end users.
```
kp + print-edition & volume + image-sequence + page-number + position-on-the-page.
```
- The image-sequence is a 4-digit number taken from the filename of the page scan image.
- The position-on-the-page is a 2-digit number indicating whether the entry appears first, second, or third on that page.
Thus the example above identifies the entry that appears in the seventh edition, volume 6, on page 548, where it is the third entry.
@xml:lang identifies the primary language of the entry as English.
@xmlns tells us that this is a TEI document by linking to the TEI namespace.

TEI structure

Following the <TEI> element, TEI documents contain two additional elements that divide the document into two sections.

<teiHeader> contains metadata for the file.
<text> contains the body text, the part seen when the page is displayed.

The details in this style guide apply to the <text> portion of each document. Some information about metadata encoding in the <teiHeader>can be found in Master Files.