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        Date: 2019-01-28 08:04:33+00:00
        From: Patrick Sahle 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.390: the McGann-Renear debate

Am 28.01.2019 um 06:24 schrieb Humanist:
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>          Date: 2019-01-27 23:32:11+00:00
>          From: Desmond Schmidt 
>          Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.388: humour, objects and the McGann-Renear
debate
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> Perhaps Alan Renear believed texts were "fundamentally hierarchical"
> 20 years ago, but I doubt that he still does. Texts are not
> hierarchical -- markup languages are.

And perhaps Alan Renear believed that "renditional features are no
proper locations for textual meaning" 20 years ago, but I doubt that he
still does. Text is renditional - only character encoding is not.[1]

Patrick Sahle
Cologne Center for eHumanities

[1] in other contexts, of course, I would show how even character
encoding conveys textual meaning by renditional features

> Desmond Schmidt
> eResearch,
> Queensland University of Technology


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