Thanks a lot to Martin Holmes and Paul F. Schaffner
for their clear explanations
(and for the pointer)
Best wishes
-- Jean-Luc Chevillard (EFEO/CNRS, Pondicherry/Paris)
On 14/06/2011 22:04, Paul F. Schaffner wrote:
> I believe that the usual way is to use multiple <pb/> tags,
> distinguishing between the editions by means of the @ed attribute.
> Alternatively, if you prefer, you may use <pb/> for your 'primary'
> witness and <milestone unit="page"/> for the others, again using
> the @ed attribute to distinguish editions. This is discussed in
> the Guidelines in the sections dealing with milestone elements
> and reference systems.
>
> //pfs
>
On 14/06/2011 21:59, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I think the best way to do this would be to use a <pb/> tag with @n for
> the page number, and the @ed attribute to designate the edition(s) in
> which this page number applies:
>
> <http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.sourced.html>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD wrote:
>
>> Dear TEI list,
>>
>> I expect this is probably a very elementary standard question
>> but I would greatly appreciate short-cuts towards an answer.
>>
>> Does the /TEI guidelines/ contain a section dealing with "multiple
>> page numbering"?
>>
>> The context
>> is that I would like to simultaneously encode
>> inside an electronic text
>> the page numberings
>> seen in several ancient editions of an important Tamil text.
>>
>> One specific passage might, for instance, be in page 137 in edition A
>> but in page 159 in edition B. (this is an imaginary example!)
>>
>> Thanks for telling me which section(s) of the TEI guidelines deal(s)
>> with that kind of problem (I have only browsed through several
>> versions of the guidelines)
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> -- Jean-Luc Chevillard (EFEO, Pondicherry, India)
>>
>>
>>
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