TEI: Using the Template¶2.1. Using the Template

Starting with version 16.2, the default distribution of Oxygen should include the jTEI components as part of its built-in TEI P5 framework. If you are using an older version of Oxygen, you can subscribe to the TEI-built version of the framework, by following these instructions.

In Oxygen, you can start a new article based on the jTEI template by selecting File → New, and selecting JTEI Article [TEI P5] under Framework templates → TEI P5.

Figure 1. Selecting the jTEI article template in Oxygen.

You will see that the root TEI element in the new file has an attribute rend=jTEI. This tells Oxygen that it's a jTEI file, so that it can apply standard jTEI rendering and validation scenarios to it. If you don't want to keep this attribute value, you can achieve the same effect by saving the file with a filename matching this format: ‘jtei-*-source.xml’ (where the asterisk stands for anything you like); Oxygen will also recognize files with names in this format as jTEI files.

TEI: Testing Your Document¶2.2. Testing Your Document

The Oxygen framework provides one output rendering scenario, which allows you to transform your jTEI article to the ODT format. Open the ODT file you create in a recent version of LibreOffice or OpenOffice; Microsoft Office does not support the current ODT specification. If you see any problems with the rendering, don't worry, and please don't change good TEI XML to bad TEI in an attempt to make it render more successfully; report the problem to us and we'll look into it.