Oxford University Press BITS Typecodes

This document provides guidance on the capture and of OUP Typecodes in:

• Pre-Edit Tools
• Copyediting
• XML Capture
• Design Specifications
• Additional Production documentation and handover

The BITS typecodes found in this document are quite different than the typecodes OUP has been using up to this point. Our previous typecodes followed a “flat” structure, requiring multiple codes to cover the same type of content. For example, we needed different typecodes for Box Titles, Chapter Titles, Part Titles, and so on. In contrast, BITS typecodes follow a contextual model.

With the BITS typecodes, we have Contextual Style Typecodes that denote context, acting as a wrapper around other codes denoting a particular style in that context. This means that a single Title typecode can be present within a Chapter context, a Part context, a Box context, etc.

Contextual Style Typecodes have opening and closing tags, allowing us to nest Paragraph Style Typecodes and Character Style Typecodes within them.

• Paragraph Style Typecodes may be nested within Contextual Style Typecodes, or can stand alone. These styles are applied to paragraphs of content within a Word document, and do not have open and closing tags.
• Character Style Typecodes are applied to pieces of text within a paragraph. These can be found within Paragraph Style typecodes. They also do not have open and closing tags.

The document that follows provides an overview of the BITS typecodes. The following information is provided for each typecode:

• The name of the typecode
• A description of the typecode and how it is used
• An example of the typecode style as used in Word
• The XPath the typecode must map to in BITS with a link to full XML capture in the Text Capture Instructions (TCIs)
• Additional relevant or special information about the code in relation to OUP workflows.

We also have a concise cheat sheet available.