Karen Lofstrom wrote:
Though the "standard edition" may not exist for some of the books most often assigned in literature courses. If an instructor assigns _Moby Dick_, which must exist in dozens of editions, then which edition is to be considered standard? Are you going to force a student to buy the XXX edition if she has the YYY edition? If, writing a scholarly paper, you cite page numbers from YYY, they will not necessarily match the page numbers from XXX.
In TEI you can milestone any number of editions you like. You can also mark up alternative text versions. You can thus produce multiple editions with correct page numbering out of one TEI master. Just a small matter of programming.
Which is why canonical texts like the Bible and the Qur'an are given the chapter/verse treatment.
The smart thing would have been to give every text this treatment. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org