[tei-council] handShift anomaly

[James Cummings]

Dot Porter wrote:
> On 10/6/06, James Cummings
> Um, I actually do start transcriptions with <pb/> (and <lb/> for that
> matter). And, if I had to deal with scribal hands, I'd probably start
> with <handShift/> too. I suppose this is tag abuse?

I wouldn't have said it is tag abuse, just a different philosophy about where
the breaks happen.  To me the text starts (ignoring front matter) on the first
line of the first page, and the first pagebreak happens at the end of that page
when it changes to number '2'.  And the first linebreak is at the end of the
first line.  While I feel I'm on safer ground with the line breaks, I certainly
have seen both approaches.

-James

> 
> Dot
> 
>> > I might also add that I've always thought it was really silly to use
>> > <handShift> to indicate a shift in things other than identity of the
>> scribal
>> > hand, e.g. the colour of the ink. All that kind of stuff can be
>> dealt with in
>> > <handDesc>.
>>
>> They were also suggesting this.  Well, to be honest because there is
>> so much
>> rubrication in the manuscript, they are adding a new temporary local
>> element <r>
>> to mark it and thinking it might stand for <handShift ink="red"/> text
>> <handShift ink="black"/> or similar.  I was going to recommend to them
>> that when
>> they expand this they might wish to do so to <hi rend="red">text</hi>
>> instead.
>>
>> -James
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>> Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
>> James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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