Leveraging markup to process narrative recipes

In earlier papers [ Flynn 2020a , Flynn 2021 ] I described the implementation of ‘ ℞ ’ (pronounced /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pē/ ‘reSEEpay’), an XML/XSLT system for checking and reproducing structured cookery recipes. Since then, work has been ongoing: a ) to refine the categories used in the metadata; b ) to improve the implementation in CSS; and c ) to extend the markup to narrative recipes encoded in other schemas. This paper describes the third of these, with a test implementation in TEI. The objective was to see to what extent the encoding could be implemented for a narrative recipe, while preserving the original [narrative] form of the text encoded as-is in TEI, rather than force it into the modern layout.