![]() TEI P5 does offer improved guidance for coding one critical category of medieval scribal practice, abbreviations-with the, which enables encoders to specify both the abbreviated and expanded forms of words. Documentary editions of early manuscripts, and digital transcriptions of scribal culture in general, however, are frequently beset with issues of display, especially in cases of special characters and abbreviations not present in Unicode and for which neither current scholarship on electronic text editing nor the TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange offer much guidance for coding or display. Scholars of texts in common Western languages from the print era often face few challenges related to display fonts and character sets necessary to reproduce the printed page are readily available vis-à-vis Unicode. Since XML and HTML are routinely partnered in achieving the same goal-the global interchange of information that is the Digital Humanities since this interchange more and more frequently involves the World Wide Web and since a fundamental goal of Web technologies, like HTML, is display, the problems of and solutions for display must become more central to TEI.
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