[tei-council] pb, lb

[Dan O'Donnell]

I suspect there are two sayings kicking around here:

- Let sleeping dogs lie
- herding cats (what happens if you wake up the dogs, I guess)

And then there is a Yogi Berra (a famous baseball coach): you can drag a
dead horse to the well but you can't make it drink. Which isn't directly
relevant but seems like it might be at some point.

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:06 +0100, Peter Boot wrote:
> Hi Arianna,
> 
> Arianna Ciula schreef:
> 
> > I know this seems like awaking dead cats (is this an idiom at all?), 
> 
> I thought it was sleeping dogs? (In Dutch we use 'pulling a dead horse' 
> for a hopeless undertaking.)
> 
> > I am asking because today I was asked to explain the example available 
> > on the reference specs for <lb/> 
> > (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-lb.html):
> > 
> > <docTitle>
> >   <titlePart type="main">
> >    <lb/>THE
> >   <lb/>Pilgrim's Progress
> >   <lb/>FROM
> >   <lb/>THIS WORLD,
> >   <lb/>TO
> >   <lb/>That which is to come:
> >   </titlePart>
> > <!-- etc. -->
> > </docTitle>
> > 
> > ...and that <lb/> at the beginning is not consistent with other examples...
> 
> I would say that there might be cases where a docTitle does not 
> necessarily begin on a new line. For projects that encounter that 
> situation, an initial <lb> might be necessary in the cases where it does.
> 
> Peter
> 
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