Re: div and p
Marjorie Burghart <[email protected]>
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Hello! How common: off the top of my head, I would say that it is the norm (and not an oddity) at least for historical essays (for what I know - it might be quite common in other genres). This is part of the "art of writing" I have been taught as a French historian: at the end of a chapter, you must offer a short abstract of the topics and conclusions of the current chapter, and offer a "transition" from those topics to topic of the next chapter. My PhD certainly follows this rule, as did my supervisor's dissertation. The typographic conventions may vary: a bit more space before the conclusive paragraph, a separation sign (in my PhD I chose to have asterisks in the shape of a triangle, I don't know if this sign has a name?), or sometimes nothing particular. @James: of course I could find workarounds, but what I find irksome is that I have to... @Martin: I don't suggest to change the jTEI format, I'm currently using it to write book chapters, which may explain why I'm running into this issue. The jTEI rules are not the source of the problem, they just make it more evident. ----- Mail original ----- De: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <[email protected]> À: [email protected] Envoyé: Jeudi 12 Janvier 2017 16:33:00 Objet: Re: div and p > On Jan 12, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Paul Schaffner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to confirm that in encoding tens of thousands of books, and > instructing editors, the p,div vs. div,p issue in TEI has been a source > of frequent frustration. Far from being rare, actual examples of > div,p are quite common in the wild. Since we didn’t examine every book printed on Western presses since 1470, it would not be surprising if there were counter-examples we had missed. Since however we did look, I’m a little surprised to hear you say counter-examples are not just existent but “quite common”. Can you point to any examples? Can you give frequency numbers? Of a thousand books, do 400 have material that should go in paragraph-level chunks after sub-divisions? What does “quite common” mean, quantitatively? And … what are the typographic signals that indicate that the paragraphs in question are part of the higher-level division but not part of the immediately preceding subdivision, and not part of a new subdivision of its own? ******************************************** C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC [email protected] http://www.blackmesatech.com ********************************************