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#228 when and where to capture line breaks

GREEN
closed-fixed
Tite (10)
5(default)
2014-07-01
2010-09-07
No

Tite says "If line breaks are to be captured, use the lb element" but does not explain under what circumstances line breaks are to be captured outside of verse (where it's discussed in relation to <l>). This should be clarified.

Discussion

  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2010-09-08
    • labels: 1223995 --> Tite
     
  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2010-09-16
    • summary: Tite: when to capture line breaks --> when to capture line breaks
     
  • Lou Burnard

    Lou Burnard - 2010-09-17

    IMHO line breaks need to be captured in prose (or text where verse lines are *not* indicated) only in the following situations:

    - where the layout is clearly purposeful, e.g. because it forms a pattern or acrostic, or on a title page whose components are not otherwise distinguished

    - where a word has been broken across a line (with or without hyphenation)

    But in general, I can't see much value in it if you are going to the trouble of capturing semantic markup such as verse lines, list items, paragraphs etc.

     
  • Lou Burnard

    Lou Burnard - 2010-10-19
    • assigned_to: nobody --> kshawkin
     
  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2011-02-27

    Will return to this once tickets 3136934, 3136935 3136936, and 3164403 are resolved, bringing canonical and Apex versions of Tite into alignment.

     
  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2011-02-27
    • status: open --> open-postponed
     
  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2011-05-25

    The spec also does not say whether to insert <lb/> at the beginning or end of the line. Compare this with <pb/>, which should always be at the start of the page. TEI P5 says to to put the <lb/> at the start of the line.

     
  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2011-05-25
    • summary: when to capture line breaks --> when and where to capture line breaks
     
  • James Cummings

    James Cummings - 2013-11-10
    • Group: --> AMBER
    • Priority: 5 --> 5(default)
     
  • James Cummings

    James Cummings - 2013-11-10

    Setting as AMBER.

     
  • Kevin Hawkins

    Kevin Hawkins - 2013-11-13
    • Description has changed:

    Diff:

    --- old
    +++ new
    @@ -1 +1 @@
    -Tite says "If line breaks are to be captured, use the lb  element" but does not explain under what line breaks are to be captured outside of verse \(where it's discussed in relation to &lt;l&gt;\).  This should be clarified.
    +Tite says "If line breaks are to be captured, use the lb  element" but does not explain under what circumstances line breaks are to be captured outside of verse \(where it's discussed in relation to &lt;l&gt;\).  This should be clarified.
    
     
  • James Cummings

    James Cummings - 2014-06-30

    Martin Holmes agreeing to implement.

     
  • James Cummings

    James Cummings - 2014-06-30
    • assigned_to: Kevin Hawkins --> Martin Holmes
     
  • Martin Holmes

    Martin Holmes - 2014-06-30

    Martin will examine the existing recommendation and add clarification as needed, on the basis that many projects will wish to encode line breaks and must have clear instructions on how to do so.

     
  • Martin Holmes

    Martin Holmes - 2014-07-01
    • status: open-postponed --> closed-fixed
    • Group: AMBER --> GREEN
     
  • Martin Holmes

    Martin Holmes - 2014-07-01

    Added longer explanation of use of lb in rev 12925. Closing this bug.