On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Amanda Gailey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question that may qualify as the most unfortunate TEI-related
> homonym ever: Can we discuss why you can't put a <head> in <p>?
Basically, because <head> has to appear at the head *of something*,
whether div or table or list or what have you. And yours does not,
unless you provide it with something to be head of.
> off in the middle of a paragraph and picks up again in the middle of a
> later page. The continuation (beginning mid-paragraph) has a title
> over it. It seems the most straightforward thing to do would be:
> <p> Text from the first page here.
> <pb/>
> <head>Title from the Second Page</head>
> Continued text here.</p>
>
> This doesn't validate, though. I know this problem dredges up the
> eternal conflict between text and document structures (which are
> particularly problematic for periodicals).
The only options that spring to mind are to
(1) treat the 'continuation' title as one would a running
header, associated with the physical division of the document
into pages and columns. I.e., use <fw>.
(2) allow the physical segmentation of the article to
enter into its intellectual structure. That means
introducing a new <div> at the break and tagging
the continuation title as the <head> of the new
<div>. It also means breaking the paragraph (or <ab>
if you prefer) into two and parcelling it out between
the two <div>s, just as one does to <lg>s when dividing
them between <sp>s in drama.
(3) cheat and simply call the continuation title a
<label>, which has been used (or abused?) to mean almost
anything and can appear almost anywhere.
pfs
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