On Fri, February 22, 2008 16:25, Paul F. Schaffner wrote:
> Hilde Bøe wrote:
>> we've had these in Ibsen's dramas as well, and our solution is simple (I
>> hesitate to use the word elegant though) and it's within the law of the
>> Guidelines :-)
>>
>> <stage rend="braced">paa engang. [=at the same time]
>> <lb/><sp who="THORGEJR"><speaker>Thorgejr</speaker> [...] </sp>
>> <lb/><sp who="ALFHILD"><speaker>Alfhild</speaker> [...] </sp>
>> <lb/><sp who="HOUGFOLK"><speaker>Chor af Hougfolk</speaker> [...] </sp>
>> </stage>
>
> Thanks also to Hilde. Though this simple and surprising solution
> (enclosing the three <sp>s  within <stage>, but why the <lb/>s?) seems
> semantically a little forced, it is good to know that others are coping
> inventively with similar things--and it looks better when written out than
> I would have expected. We ended up using this method, since it is one
> available to us--we have retained <sp> in the content model of <stage>.
> I don't know why: I cannot remember every having used <sp> within
> <stage>, and am not sure that I was even aware of its being there.
>
> I think, however, that if I wished to treat the bracketed <stage>
> more as I treat similar bracketed material, I would prefer to attach
> it to some kind of container more appropriate than <stage> itself.
> E.g., I'd rather tag like this:
>
>     <*spGrp>
>     <stage>all together</stage>
>        <sp>...</sp>
>        <sp>...</sp>
>        <sp>...</sp>
>     </*spGrp>
>
> or more generically, invoking the oft-discussed floating <div>:
>
>     <*divFloat type="speech group">
>     <stage>all together</stage>
>        <sp><speaker>person 1</speaker> ... </sp>
>        <sp><speaker>person 2</speaker> ... </sp>
>        <sp><speaker>person 3</speaker> ... </sp>
>     </*divFloat>
>
> pfs

Hello Paul,
I believe we would also have prefered a solution with a container element
if it had been available; the three speeches are not really a part of the
stage element.
All the best, Hilde