On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Paul F. Schaffner wrote:

|currently being added to the Corpus of Middle English), we are content to
|capture as follows:
|
|   butter|fly,<PB N="23">  instead of  butter-<PB N="23">fly,
|
|That is, preserve the end-of-line hyphen as a distinctive character
|or character entity (which is indexed as null), and defer the page break
|tag till the word interrupted by the page break is completed, along with
|any attached punctuation.

The XML way of doing this would be to use an entity reference (such as
&shy;) which can be set by an application to expand to "-" or to
nothing. This has the not inconsiderable merit of not falling foul of
the TEI's first commandment, viz "Thou shalt have no other markup
scheme beside me". In general, overloading characters (especially
things like vertical bars which dont travel well) ought to be avoided
in documents intended for interchange.



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