Re: Marking up liturgical texts

Well, yes, <seg> CAN be used like that, to cover all sorts of edge 
cases. (Though you may find it needs to be wrapped up in a <p> or 
something similar).
But if you;re interested in marking up the liturgy semantically, why not 
do the job properly, using <sp> and <p> and <lg> for the various 
scripted parts, and <stage> for the "directions" ? Alternatively, you 
could use <note>, perhaps with a @type attribute to indicate that it's 
an instruction. Either of these options has the advantage that it can 
appear within or between paragraphs.



On 03/04/17 16:57, Hayim Lapin wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> A colleague working on liturgical texts (in fact, seasonably 
> appropriate: the text for the passover seder) asked how her group 
> might encode liturgical instructions ("here the cup is raised"; "In X 
> circumstances the following is recited").
>
> I suggested <seg> using @type and @subtype attributes as necessary to 
> specify further.  However, my guess is that there are people on this 
> list who have far more experience than me with this sort of thing.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Many thanks,
> -- 
> Hayim Lapin
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