biblio: How to Mark Up a Text

This document is intended for Stoa collaborators, Perseus editors, and Perseus programmers. Readers should be familiar with the basic ideas of SGML. The Stoa's Introduction to Structured Markup and the Text Encoding Initiative's Gentle Introduction to SGML supply useful background information, knowledge of which will be assumed in what follows. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange are the basis for the markup schema described here.



Writers and editors creating a new text in electronic format will not be concerned with some of the more technical information in this document. Programmers dealing with raw output from optical scans or data entry, on the other hand, should read the hints about automatic processing. Editors doing more detailed markup on a text that has already been turned into correct SGML will have requirements intermediate between those of the other groups. Editors with little experience in SGML should experiment with simple files first; on a first reading, ignore anything that appears too complicated.