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Text Encoding Initiative |
The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines<desc> |
| <desc> | (description) (in a writing system declaration) contains a description of a character or character form. | |
| Attributes | Global attributes only | |
| Example |
<form string="a">
<desc>Latin lower-case letter A</desc>
</form>
<form string="" entityLoc="infinity">
<desc>author's private symbol for infinity: a parabola open to the right,
with a dot at its focal point. In general, the character rests on the
base line and rises to about the height of a typical ascender.</desc>
</form>
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| Note |
The <desc> element should usually contain the name of the character or character form; in some cases further information (e.g. the description of the character's shape) will be useful, as shown in the example. |
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| Module | Declared in file teiwsd2; Auxiliary tag set for Writing System Declarations | |
| Data Description | May contain character data only. | |
| May contain | #PCDATA | |
| May occur within | ||
| Declaration |
<!ELEMENT desc %om.RO; (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST desc
%a.global;> |
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| See further | 25.4.2 Exceptions in the WSD | |
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