Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] TEI markup question
From: Marcello Perathoner <[email-masked]>
To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:04:31 +0200

Andrew Sly wrote:

> Has anyone here had experience in marking up a passage
> which contains a couple of quoted lines of verse that
> clearly occur within a paragraph?

TEI has not the petty limitations of HTML. A TEI p can contain q, list, 
table, figure, text. (This is also the reason why XSL transformation 
from TEI to HTML is hard. An HTML p may not contain blockquote, ul, ol, 
dl, table.)

Mark it up straight like this:

-------------------
<p>The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them
dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from 
<title>Marmion</title>&mdash;which
had also been part of their English course the preceding winter
and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart&mdash;and
exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its
imagery.  When she came to the lines

<quote rend="display">
<lg>
<l>The stubborn spearsmen still made good</l>
<l>Their dark impenetrable wood,</l>
</lg>
</quote>

she stopped in ecstasy to shut her eyes that she might the better
fancy herself one of that heroic ring.  When she opened them
again it was to behold Diana coming through the gate that led
into the Barry field and looking so important that Anne instantly
divined there was news to be told.  But betray too eager
curiosity she would not.</p>
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You may also use <q> instead of <quote>. But <quote> is more correct if 
it references a published work.

-- 
Marcello Perathoner
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