## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <figure>

`<figure>` | (in a writing system declaration) contains an image of a character form, stored in-line in some declared notation.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`notation` | identifies the notation in which the figure is encoded.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: a valid name associated with a given notation by means of an NOTATION declaration in the document type definition.
| Default: #REQUIRED

Example

    <!-- ===== in the DTD ===== -->
    <!NOTATION charcell
               PUBLIC '-//Anonymous//NOTATION
                       8x14 character cell format//en' >
    <!-- 'CHARCELL' is a simple-minded notation for transcribing  -->
    <!-- character images in the form used by the old IBM PC:     -->
    <!-- an eight-by-fourteen pixel character cell.  Each pixel   -->
    <!-- is represented by a period (if off) or an X (if on).     -->
    <!-- Newlines are ignored, but for obvious reasons it's       -->
    <!-- convenient to have one after each line of pixels.        -->
    <!-- N.B.  This 'notation' is given as an example; it is not  -->
    <!-- (repeat, NOT) recommended for serious use.               -->
    <!-- ===== in the WSD itself: ===== -->
    <character class='lexical'>
    <form entityStd='thorn' entityLoc='t'>
    <desc>Latin lowercase letter thorn</desc>
    <figure notation="charcell">
     ........
     ........
     XXX.....
     .XX.....
     .XX.....
     .XXXXX..
     .XX..XX.
     .XX..XX.
     .XX..XX.
     .XXXXX..
     .XX.....
     .XX.....
     XXXX....
     ........
    </figure>
    </form>
    </character>

Note

Inline storage should be used only for extremely simple notations such as the one shown; generally, external storage of figures using an entity reference is recommended because less error prone.

Module Declared in file teiwsd2; Auxiliary tag set for Writing System Declarations
Data Description May contain character data.
May contain #PCDATA
May occur within ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def descrip dictScrap div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph entryFree epigraph epilogue etym figDesc foreign form gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region rendition seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePage titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT figure %om.RR;  (#PCDATA)>
    <!ATTLIST figure
          %a.global;
          notation CDATA #REQUIRED>

See further 25.4.2 Exceptions in the WSD

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