As promised at the FTF, I've now added the following catechetical (sp?) para at the start of the Simple doc following the first para. ~~~~ <p>Like every other TEI customization, TEI Simple was designed for use with a particular type of material. If the material you are planning to encode matches the following criteria, then TEI Simple is for you. If it does not, it may not be. <list> <item>You are encoding print material, rather than manuscript : Simple provides no way of encoding manuscript features such as correction, deletion, or scribal variation</item> <item>You are encoding material from the Early Modern period (i.e., up to the end of the nineteenth century): some of the features for which Simple provides encodings are rarely found in modern materials.</item> <item>You are encoding material written, broadly speaking, within the Western European tradition, using largely Western European characters. Simple does provide facilities for encoding short passages in non Western European languages, but many features needed to cope with Asian or ancient scripts are missing. </item> <item>Your intention is to provide a relatively simple encoding for a large amount of material, rather than a rich encoding of a small amount of material: Simple is intended to help libraries and archives wishing to go beyond simple digital facsimiles, rather than support specialist research. It does not, for example, include features for detailed linguistic tagging beyond simple word-level tagging, nor for specialised text types such as dictionaries, historical or biographical databases, etc. </item> </list> If your needs go beyond those summarized here, Simple may still be a good point of departure, and may be very useful as a basis for the creation of your own TEI customisation. We don't however discuss the creation of a TEI customization in this document: the TEI website provides a number of links to tutorial material and tools which may assist in this process. </p> ~~~~ Magda, James, others: does this seem correct and complete?