[tei-council] using <stage>

Fri Nov 18 08:47:08 EST 2011

On 18/11/11 13:36, Martin Holmes wrote:
> On 11-11-18 05:10 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> hands up who believes in this example from ECCO:
>>
>>    <div type="epilogue">
>>           <pb facs="10" rend="none"/>
>>           <head>EPILOGUE.</head>
>>           <head>
>>             <stage>Spoken by Mrs. BARRY.</stage>
>>           </head>
>>
>> can a<head>   contain a<stage>?
>
> I think it would be reasonable to assume that there must be some
> typographical evidence to justify this. Perhaps the stage direction is
> rendered in the same font as the EPILOGUE bit, whereas the rest of the
> scene is in a smaller font? Failing that, it seems a bit perverse to me.
>

Redundant, certainly, though not particularly perverse.

Is the rest of the div all a single <sp> one wonders.