[tei-council] <postscript>

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon May 7 11:06:24 EDT 2012


On 7 May 2012, at 15:08, Lou Burnard wrote:

> On 07/05/12 00:16, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> A gentleman of my acquaintance notes that this is illegal:
>> 
>> <postscript>
>> <p>some stuff</p>
>> <lb/>
>> <closer><signed>MM</signed></closer>
>> </postscript>
>> 
>> which seems harsh.
> 
> Why? What is the <lb/> doing there? If it's meant to show that the 
> <signed> starts on a new line, shouldn't it be inside the <signed>? (And 
> in any case, surely the new line is implied by the </p> preceding it)
> 
cf discussion about whether <signed> is block-level or inline.....

anyway, whether its mad or not, I am sure we _intended_ to allow lb (sic)
to interleave any old which way. mentally replace with <pb/>
if it makes you happier.

Sebastian



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