Letters constitute words that constitute lines that constitute pages that constitute a text. As, however, the text appears, letters, lines etc. are interpreted together with several other signals important to the reader. Any other concrete rendering of the text might convey the same meaning of the text. We shall term the union set of such renderings the abstract intention with the text, and show that it is more comprehensive than any single rendering, including the one delivered by the author of (...) the text. The paper address the issue of how to encode and store a computer representation of a text whether it be the base of a printed copy of a book or an electronic version. (shrink)

A concise description of, and a detailed coding guidance to the electronic text format for Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter. Kierkegaard Normal Format 1 obeys the rules of the XML standard.