Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] TEI markup question
From: Joshua Hutchinson <[email-masked]>
To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:05:40 -0500

I don't remember if you can place a <lg> within a <p> block, but ...

You can put a rend="noindent" on the second paragraph to insure that it won't ever have an indention.

As to what is the "right way to do it" ... I don't know.

Josh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Sly" <[email-masked]>
> 
> Here is a question for those interested in TEI markup.
> (non-constuctive answers will be ignored)
> 
> 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?
> 
> Here is a particular example (from anne11.txt):
> 
> == Begin Excerpt ==
> The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them
> dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from MARMION--which
> had also been part of their English course the preceding winter
> and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart--and
> exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its
> imagery.  When she came to the lines
> 
>               The stubborn spearsmen still made good
>               Their dark impenetrable wood,
> 
> 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.
> 
> == End Excerpt ==
> 
> The first reaction, which I have seen done before, is
> to use a <p> then a <lg> then a <p>. This is not an ideal
> solution, (as I am sure Lee would not hesitate to point out).
> > From a semantic point of view the section beginning "she
> stopped in ecstasy to shut her eyes" is not structually
> a complete paragraph. From a presentational point of
> view, you are likely to get an undesirable styling on
> that last element if someone decides to have initial
> indentation on all paragraphs in the document.
> 
> 
> According to the PGTEI dtd, is it valid to have a <lg>
> within a <p>?
> 
> If not, I don't suppose we can lable a <p> as Initial, Medial
> or Final as with the <l> element...
> 
> Andrew
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