Templates

A template supplies the parts of the TEI document around the transcription — the header and the closing tags — and decides how the transcription is encoded. The template in use is chosen in the toolbar. Templates are managed with the template button in the editor header.

Built-in templates

Two templates are built in:

• TEI P5: a TEI P5 document with a minimal header.
• Menota: a document following the MENOTA handbook, with the MENOTA namespace and entity declarations, and the three transcription levels enabled.

Built-in templates cannot be changed. Their edit button creates a copy that can be changed.

Options

Each template has three options:

Option	Effect
Word wrapping	Each word is wrapped in <w>, punctuation in <pc>. Required for lemmatization and annotations.
Auto line numbers	Line breaks without a number (//) are numbered consecutively.
Multi-level (MENOTA)	Each word contains <me:facs>, <me:dipl> and <me:norm>. See MENOTA levels.

Word wrapping matters beyond appearance: words are what lemmatization and annotations attach to. If a document was compiled without word wrapping, its words cannot be clicked in the preview.

Note

Of the built-in templates, Menota enables word wrapping, automatic line numbers and the three levels. TEI P5 is a minimal plain-TEI template with word wrapping off; duplicate it and enable Word wrapping if you want lemmatization on a plain TEI document.

Creating a template

Click + New Template, then enter:

• a name and description;
• the XML before the transcription, up to and including <body>;
• the XML after the transcription;
• the three options above.

Any template can be duplicated. Your own templates can be edited and deleted; built-in templates are read-only.

The header a template supplies is a starting point. Document-specific information is better entered in the metadata editor, which writes into the <teiHeader> and is saved with the project.

Choosing a default

The template used for new projects is set in Settings. Choosing a template in the toolbar changes the current document; it does not change the default.

Tip

Templates are how the shorthand adapts to a different encoding standard. If your project writes words, punctuation or MENOTA levels differently, start from one of the built-in templates, duplicate it, and adjust the surrounding markup and options.