Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 353.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:04:45 +0100
From: Martin Mueller <martinmueller@northwestern.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0349 encoding vs markup? Boolean?
This is an off-the cuff response to Fotis Jannidis inquiry about "text
encoding" and "text mark-up." I'm not an expert in the literature, but I
read around it a fair amount. If there is a clear distinction between the
semantic spheres of encoding and mark-up it has escaped this particular
reader. Perhaps there should be a difference, but I don't think there is a
systematic and acknowledged difference in usage
At 03:14 PM 10/13/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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> [1] From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni- (30)
> muenchen.de>
> >
> [2] From: "Gerda Elata" <gerda@bgumail.bgu.ac.il> (2)
> Subject: Re: 14.0343 new on WWW: e-publishing bib; e-portal for
> development
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> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:52:17 +0100
> From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
> Subject: text encoding and text markup
>
>Hello,
>
>for a encyclopedia I am writing an article on "text encoding". I
>discovered that I am not sure how this concept is - in the actual use
>of words - related to "text markup" and whether there is an
>established difference how they are used?
>
>Intuitively I would say that "text encoding" is the more extensive
>concept, also including the intellectual and philological processes
>necessary to do the markup, while "text markup" rather refers to the
>more technical aspects and is just a part of text encoding.
>Another point makes this question even more complicated: I am
>writing this article for a German lexicon and I have the impression
>that in German the relation of "Textkodierung" and
>"Textauszeichnung" is just reversed, the latter being the more
>abstract concept.
>
>Could you please tell me how you would think a prototypical use of
>"text encoding" and "text markup" (to mix two ways of researching
>word semantics) should look like if you go by your intuition. As
>these concepts are quite young, our intuition can only be quite
>weak, and every response is very welcome. To the many German
>readers on this list: Do you think my understanding of the German
>concepts meets yours?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance,
>
>Fotis Jannidis
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