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Obvious typos and errors should be surrounded by the sic tag but not corrected. Later in lemmatization, they will receive correctly spelled lemmas. Note that British spelling is not considered an error and should not be marked up in any special way.

I know <sic>th</sic> way.
Your coat is a lovely colour.

Dates are marked up using the date element, usually with the @when attribute, in the yyyy-mm-dd format. It is possible to annotate dates fully, if they are known from context, even if the text mentions a partial date, e.g.:

• On <date when=“2015-05-05”>Tuesday</date>
• Dates may have rendering, and free standing dates are considered independent <s> units:

  <s><date when="2015-05-07" rend="bold">Thursday, May 7, 2015</date></s>

• Partial dates are possible, such as years or months of years: <date when=“2016”>2016</date> <date when=“2016-03”>March 2016</date>
• Circa dates. If it's clear from context the possible date range, include the circa token in the tag and specify the possible date range: <date notBefore=“1898-01-01” notAfter=“1898-12-31”>c. 1898</date>. If it's unclear from context, leave the circa token out: c. <date when=“1200”>1200</date>.
• Names for ranges of dates are supplied using @from and @to, e.g. <date from=“1990” to=“1999”>The 90s</date>.
• If a date range is given explicitly, use two tags with @when: <date when=“1990”>1990</date> - <date when=“2000”>2000</date>
• Years before 0000 (i.e. BC) receive a minus, but still have four digits: <date when=“-0128”>128 BC</date>

Numbered lists and unnumbered bullet points are considered parts of structural markup, and both are a type of <list>.

• The list element has a @type attribute to distinguish the two.
• Each list item in an ordered list carries an attribute @n to designate the number. When @n is used, there is no need to make the number into a token as well: the number is considered a part of the styling, and not a token.
• List items typically contain one or more paragraphs (<p> elements). Unlike headings, even if the list contains only one paragraph, a <p> element is used to distinguish its text flow (indentation, separation from rest of text), and for consistency in cases where a single list item has multiple paragraphs.

The following example illustrates markup for a numbered list:

  <list type="ordered">
  <item n="1"> 
  <!-- the number 1 is not a token, even though it appeared in the text-->
  <p>This is the first step

Figures are surrounded by <figure> tags. Although the figures themselves are not preserved in the corpus, they can be described in the attribute @rend of the figure element. Descriptions are only made in the @rend attribute and are not added to the tokens of the text itself (for this reason, the alternative TEI method of using <figureDesc> is NOT used).

• Figures that have a caption surround the caption element, and the caption itself contains tokens that are annotated as usual (since they actually appear in, and are part of the text):

  <figure rend="Picture of Queen Elizabeth II"><caption>The Queen in Beijing last year</caption></figure>

• Figures may contain tokenizable text, e.g. if the figure is meant to be read.

  <figure rend="list of suspects in the case and their mug shots">CEO - secretary - ambassador</figure>

• Figures without captions or other tokeinzable text are left empty, but enclosed by figure tags:

  <figure rend="picture of a valley"></figure>

Pop up image descriptions or tooltips (in HTML, things like 'alt' or 'title') are not considered running tokens of the text. They may optionally be included in @rend if desired.

Typographical information for spans of text in hi@rend should be single words where possible, often derived from corresponding CSS vocabulary. For example, we use 'bold', 'italic', and 'large'. Multiple values are possible and should be separated by spaces:

  <hi rend="bold italic large">The Big Picture</hi>

Literal quotes are surrounded by the <quote> tags, regardless of whether or not quotation marks are used. But other uses of quotation marks are surrounded by <q>. Compare the following two uses:

  Caesar said <quote>veni, vidi, vici</quote>. You could say that was his <q>" motto "</q>.

Some tokens that are spelled together cannot be trivially recognized as such after tokenization. Whereas n't or 'll are easy, can + not can be can not or cannot. To distinguish the latter case, we can add the tag <w> for 'word' to the case cannot:

  I <w>cannot</w> do this (5 tokens)