On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 17:14, Raffaele Viglianti wrote:
Hi all,
I've drafted a new section for chapter 6 Verse, to address bug #705 [1]
The new section would come right after the section "Components of the Verse Line" [2]
Here is the draft: https://gist.github.com/raffazizzi/c70e1565bc4b83d4a043#file-vesa
Please let me know if you have any comments. If we're happy with it, I'd like to commit it before the freeze on Monday.
Hi Raff, As regards the language, I would say (1) since 'verse / verses' (as a count noun "a verse," "two verses") is ambiguous in English -- it can mean either a LINE of verse or a STANZA of verse --, I would be inclined to replace "two verses" "multiple verses" etc. with either "two lines of verse" or "two metrical lines". This avoids interference from the possible sense "two stanzas" etc. (2) It's 'stand-off' not 'stand-of'. As regards the general problem, I am a little dubious about the solutions, not because they are not valid solutions, but because in many cases (virtually all the ones that I meet) I would normally reach first for simpler alternatives, as perhaps would anyone using a tei-simple-like tag set. E.g. given this: <LG> <L>'Tis fit we think, by Force, he won the Field,</L> <L>Yet she submitted to that Force to yield.</L> <L>How often after, when he left her Bed,</L> <L>Call'd out betimes where Fame and Danger led.</L> <L>How often smiling was he heard to say,</L> <L>" And will you tempt your Ravisher to stay?</L> <L>" Can He deserve soft Looks, or winning Charms,</L> <L>" Who by rude Force at first possess'd your Arms?</L> </LG> We would be inclined (1) to leave it as it is and let the literal "-marks suffice to mark the the last three lines; or (2) replace <lg> with <div>, thus: <div type="stanza"> <L>'Tis fit we think, by Force, he won the Field,</L> <L>Yet she submitted to that Force to yield.</L> <L>How often after, when he left her Bed,</L> <L>Call'd out betimes where Fame and Danger led.</L> <L>How often smiling was he heard to say,</L> <Q rend="quoted"> <L>And will you tempt your Ravisher to stay?</L> <L>Can He deserve soft Looks, or winning Charms,</L> <L>Who by rude Force at first possess'd your Arms?</L> </Q> </div> since div allows q as contents but lg does not; or (3) use a nested <lg>, thus <lg> <L>'Tis fit we think, by Force, he won the Field,</L> <L>Yet she submitted to that Force to yield.</L> <L>How often after, when he left her Bed,</L> <L>Call'd out betimes where Fame and Danger led.</L> <L>How often smiling was he heard to say,</L> <lg rend="quoted"> <L>And will you tempt your Ravisher to stay?</L> <L>Can He deserve soft Looks, or winning Charms,</L> <L>Who by rude Force at first possess'd your Arms?</L> </lg> </lg> thereby straining a little the definition of lg as a 'formal unit' or (4) break up the <lg> <lg part="i"> <L>'Tis fit we think, by Force, he won the Field,</L> <L>Yet she submitted to that Force to yield.</L> <L>How often after, when he left her Bed,</L> <L>Call'd out betimes where Fame and Danger led.</L> <L>How often smiling was he heard to say,</L> </lg> <q> <lg part="f"> <L>And will you tempt your Ravisher to stay?</L> <L>Can He deserve soft Looks, or winning Charms,</L> <L>Who by rude Force at first possess'd your Arms?</L> </lg> </q> pfs -- Paul Schaffner Digital Library Production Service PFSchaffner@umich.edu | http://www.umich.edu/~pfs/