Source: email
Date: 21 Feb 2002
Vid: 5816
Keywords: HEAD
Query The main question is about the headings. Eg image 15 has the # heading "The dayes of the weke moralysed". However, it appears like a running header and hasn't been transcribed. It doesn't appear anywhere else in the text though (apart from the contents at the back) Should it go in? If so, where?
I agree both that it looks like a running header (and probably is one), and that it should be used anyway as a head since nothing else offers itself--and that the entry in the table of contents is a good clue. Sometimes we have to interpret the rules a little creatively in the interests supplying useful information and an intelligibly organized text. I think that the natural place to put it is at the head of the moralization to which it refers, ignoring the page break* in the middle of the heading, i.e.:
<DIV1>
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>The dayes of the weke. moralysed.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>¶
<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word" REASON="rubric">
</HEAD>
<L>I Am sonday honourable</L>
<L>The heed of all the weke dayes</L>
<L>That day all thyng labourable</L>
<L>Ought to rest / and gyue lawde</L>
* I think including the <PB> for the right-hand page twice would be more confusing than the precision would be worth.
Source: email
Date: 15 Mar 2002
Filename: Wl433
Keywords: structure
Query <GROUP> with multiple <text>s did seem appropriate, as they had own title pages. However, the first title page applies to the group of texts, not just the first text
Answer Although in the instructions we have rather simplified things for the vendors (offering them only the choice between TEXT and GROUP as the top-level element), in fact the DTD allows more complicated arrangments. In particular, it allows one to substitute GROUP not only for the TEXT tag but also for the BODY tag. This is commonly useful when you have a number of TEXTs (each, say, with its own pagination and title page) bound together in a book with a title page and preface that refer to all the texts. In that case, you can organize the book like this:
<TEXT> -- top level element containing the whole book
<FRONT> -- includes title page and preface that refer to whole book
<GROUP> -- in place of the usual <BODY>, use <GROUP>.
<TEXT> -- the first of the subordinate works within the book
<FRONT> -- includes the title page of the subordinate work
<BODY> -- the body of the subordinate work
<BACK> -- ...
<TEXT> -- the second of the subordinate works within the book
<FRONT> --includes the title page of the subordinate work
<BODY>
<BACK>
</GROUP>
<BACK> -- includes, say, an index to ALL the texts.
</TEXT>
Source: notes file
Date: 30 Jan 2004
File name: Wf1705
Keywords: structure, license
Text has an imprimatur after the title and immediately before the first <p> of the body. I've used this unwieldy structure, which at least should make the imprimatur show up to anybody looking for it:
<HEAD>The Fourth Note of the CHURCH EXAMINED,VIZ. AMPLITUDE, or Multitude
and Variety of Believers.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Quarta Nota est Amplitudo, sive Multitudo & Varietas
Credentium. Bellarm. L. iv. c. vii. de Notis Ecclesiae.</HEAD>
<Q><TEXT><BODY><DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur"><P>IMPRIMATUR.</P><CLOSER>
<DATELINE><DATE>Apr. 27. 1687.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>GVIL. NEEDHAM.
</SIGNED></CLOSER></DIV1></BODY></TEXT></Q>
<P>WE could very willingly appeal to our Ad|versaries...
PFS: I can think of only two alternatives to what you've done here:
(1) The subhead is a little strange; it is not an epigraph, but seems instead to be a parallel heading--Bellarmine's Latin original of the English heading. I think I might at least add <BIBL> (and maybe <Q>?) tags to the citation portion of it, i.e.:
<HEAD TYPE="parallel">
Quarta Nota est Amplitudo, sive Multitudo & Varietas
Credentium.
<BIBL>Bellarm. L. iv. c. vii. de Notis Ecclesiae.</BIBL></HEAD>
(2) I wonder if we could stick that imprim. in a <HEAD> as well? I.e.:
<HEAD TYPE="imprimatur">
<TEXT><BODY><DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur"><P>IMPRIMATUR.</P><CLOSER>
<DATELINE><DATE>Apr. 27. 1687.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>GVIL. NEEDHAM.
</SIGNED></CLOSER></DIV1></BODY></TEXT></HEAD>