Ancient texts exhibit a variety formatting/placement choices for individual lines, marking them off visually from the majority of a text for a variety of reasons. These include:
Can we update the Guidelines to reflect these uses cases (where)? Can we extend the XSLTs to support standard renderings for same (are there standard renderings in editio)? Should we add standard values for the "rend" attribute to the schema as suggestions?
I think there are two parts to this question:
(1) improve the guidelines (perhaps http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/latest/trans-linebreak.html or http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/latest/trans-linebreakdirection.html ?) to give suggestions for formatting of lines.
(2) really come to grips with the question of documenting practice on spacing, lineation, and other issues of text that are handling differently in, e.g. Latin monumental texts and stoichedon Greek inscriptions. John raised this in 2003, but we never came to a conclusion.
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may be involved (shudder). I'll open a separate ticket for this...This is an issue for papyrology as well. The literary papyrology project wants to be able to encode such features, which they know under terms like "eisthesis".
@gabrielbodard do your recall if the 2003 discussion took place on Markup?
No, I think it was in the London sprint. We talked about it at some length, but I don't recall any conclusions or recommendations.
Diff:
CMR's original text that kicked off this ticket:
Too complex to complete research and coordination in time for 8.21. Moving to "future".
Last edit: BODARD Gabriel 2021-11-03
We decided today that this needs to be folded into the old question of different handling of vacat/space around lines in Greek/Latin etc. (Raised by John Bodel back in 2002, iirc.)
In papyrology, see now: ekthesis and eisthesis.
The current thinking on markup for this in DCLP (see ticket links above) is:
<lb rend="indent">
and<lb rend="outdent">
following a model found used on
<l>
and<lg>
in some examples in the TEI Guidelines.Per EDAG discussion on Feb. 20 about the question of indenting, we generally agreed that the challenge of using <lb> for indent is the limitations on attributes (can't mark extent, e.g.), and <space> would be better to use for here. See related discussion at FR108.
DCLP went ahead and implemented a solution using rend on lb; however, I concur with the view expressed above that EpiDoc should recommend the more flexible solution involving space.
So, implementation should probably involve the following:
Last edit: Tom Elliott 2018-02-28