# What Does TEI Markup Look Like? The following example is from [The Walt Whitman Archive](https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/loc.00001.html). It shows a portion of the markup written to create a facsimile of the original manuscript for Whitman's poem "The Argument." !["The Argument" original manuscript (1890 or 1891)](https://1449868658-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MRQTcbFY8LmyitpJ2uH%2F-MRW_on-3cV6WJJEsg3P%2F-MRX5jXNrz-tp1Fx38kd%2Floc.00001.001.jpg?alt=media\&token=dab0467e-5385-43f4-aed2-0d68c2dda69b) As you can see in the TEI facsimile below, the Archive seeks to replicate the edits made in the manuscript as well as the layout of the text: ![](https://1449868658-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MRQTcbFY8LmyitpJ2uH%2F-MRXf9x6lhlrkXKgKEIe%2F-MRXft0BxYGiooCFEeKu%2Fwhitman_tei.png?alt=media\&token=1be1fd88-5117-47cf-ad67-f9314afd5ad3) The TEI markup below looks very different from the facsimile but, if you look closely, you can probably understand some of what the markup is doing. ``` After an the ~~unsolv'd~~ argument ~~The~~ ~~Coming in,~~ a A group of little children, and their ways and chatter, flow in, ~~upon me~~ Like welcome rippling water o'er my heated nerves and flesh. Walt Whitman ```