Subject: [gutvol-d] TEI markup question
From: Andrew Sly <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:25:09 -0700 (PDT)

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