Re: Marking up liturgical texts

Very good point, and I too wondered about the various tags
available for performance. (I leave it to theorists and
specialists in both liturgy and drama to deal with whether this
reduces one cultural and literary form into a subset of the other
....)

I wrote the note in ignorance of the larger schema-framework the
encoders are using. I suspect that since they are encoding from
manuscript that semantic tagging of content may take a back seat
to primary source description. But implicit in your question (and
correctly!) is precisely the question of the larger
conceptualization of the project.

HL

On 4/3/2017 2:21 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:

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,

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Hayim Lapin
Professor of History
Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies
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--
Hayim Lapin
Professor of History
Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park, MD 20190
+1 301 405 4296
www.digitalmishnah.umd.edu | www.erabbinica.org