On 12/22/05, Wally Thompson <wally.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, I've intended to use TEI or something more capable to create a canonical version from the start. My original questions merely had to do with the plain text version, which I'm trying to prepare without losing too much information.
Well, it's impossible to create a pure text edition of a complex document without losing information. Personally I think we spend far too much time at PG worrying about the look of the plain text edition -- for many complex documents the plain text edition is a very poor relation indeed. That said, in this specific case you'll find life easier if you don't try to change the indentations in the poetry to blocks -- we used to interpret indentations in poetry as indicating new stanzas at DP, and hence changed them to blank lines, but as you've noticed there are quite a few works that use both indentations and blank lines, so it's easiest just to replicate the indentation and gaps used in the original work. -- Jon Ingram