Renderable Ref

Summary

A Renderable Ref(erence) is a text with which the TRRT replaces a TermRef, that can be processed by specific third party rendering tools, the result of which is a rendering of the original TermRef that has additional characteristics that help readers to (better) understand the intention of its author.

For example, when rendering a TermRef

• for a static website, the renderable ref might contain texts that would produce the effect that, when a reader browses to that website and hovers its mouse over a renderable ref, this will produce a popup that contains its definition.
• for a PDF, the renderable ref might contain texts that would enable generator tools to produce a glossary of all terms that were referenced within the paper, which could then automatically be inserted as an appendix to the PDF.

Curators, which are expected to control the ways in which authored texts are further processed (into rendered texts), will need to know the options provided by the TRRT tool in order to ensure that the TermRefs that are used in an authored text are rendered with the kind of renderable refs that produce the envisaged rendering effects.

Purpose

Renderable refs enable authored texts to be rendered in various ways, depending on the kind of target towards which is rendered.