[tei-council] pb, lb

[Dan O'Donnell]

On Wed, 2007-26-09 at 12:30 +0200, Matthew James Driscoll wrote:
> I've always maintained that the "b" stood for "boundary", rather than
> "break" (an idea I believe I got from Lou originally), and insisted that
> they be put at the front of the thing in question -- don't make no sense
> otherwise.

I think the impetus to put them at the end comes from html:lb usage.

> 
> Matthew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lou Burnard [mailto:lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 8:34 PM
> To: tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] pb, lb
> 
> Dan O'Donnell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is probably silly, but I've been teaching a student research
> > assistant P5 and the issue came up.
> >
> > Was there not discussion some time ago of changing the name of pb and lb
> > from page break and line break to page begin and line begin?
> 
> No discussion about changing the name of the element sfaik. But 
> agreement to clarify that th "b" should be understood as implying you 
> put the thing at the "beginning"
> >  The
> > preferred convention is to put milestones at the beginnings of spans
> > they involve (e.g. handShift), right?
> >
> >   
> krekt. " By convention, pb/ 
> <http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-pb.html> 
> elements should appear at the start of the page to which they refer." is 
> what it says in the Good Book.
> 
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