[tei-council] Re: q 'n quote
M. J. Driscoll
mjd at hum.ku.dk
Thu Nov 16 03:08:33 EST 2006
I suggest we change the definition in the Guidelines. The word "break" implies,
and the text makes explicit, that a <pb> comes between one page and another and
thus cannot come at the beginning of the document -- which, I think we all
agree, logically it must. Ditto the other b's. And <handShift>, come to think
of it.
Matthew
> Lou wrote:
> > I anticipate a similar discussion when we get to talking about whether
> > or not <pb> means "page begin" or "page boundary" or "page break", by
> > the way!
>
> My answer would be that it means page break, because that is what the guidelines
> say. ;-) http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/ref-pb.html says:
>
> "(page break) marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a
> standard reference system."
>
> To me that means that pb means page break, and that a page break element marks a
> boundary between on page of a text and the next. The lb and cb elements are
> defined in exactly the same way, as line break and column break.
>
> Whether that boundary starts before or after the page/line/column is a different
> question.
>
> -James
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