Subject: Re: [jats-list] Page breaks in books From: "Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:03:01 -0000 |
Hi Tommie and Debbie, Yes, 'target' is perfect. Indeed, it serves to represent what those page-marker-thingies are actually doing, as opposed to what they might supposedly be doing. Thanks! Cheers, Wendell On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Debbie Lapeyre dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wendellb > > Have you considered the <target> element? > > bDebbie > > > >> On Jan 12, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello JATS friends -- >> >> My question today is about marking page breaks, specifically in BITS. >> >> As you know, one conventional approach to capturing information >> regarding pagination in an original or reference version of a text is >> to use empty elements as markers of page breaks, e.g. TEI <pb n="20"/> >> to show where page 20 begins or began. >> >> And this element will sometimes serve as a link target, i.e. <pb >> n="20" id="p20"/> can appear, and then a "back of the book index" >> which directs the reader to page 20 can point somewhere. >> >> While this may be a terrible way to do indexing in an electronic >> environment, we see this a lot, and sometimes better options are not >> available. (Maybe the text was already published long ago, and our >> choices are to use this index, or do without.) >> >> BITS has 'milestone-start' and 'milestone-end' elements, but the Tag >> Library suggests that if we are to use milestone-start to indicate >> where a page begins, we should also use milestone-end to show where it >> ends: >> >> "When this element is used, it is assumed that the end of the textual >> component is marked with a <milestone-end> element." >> >> (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/extensions/bits/tag-library/1.0/index.html?elem=mile stone-start >> ) >> >> So where TEI has <pb id="p20"/>, and HTML may have <a class="pb" >> id="p20"/> ... we have a pair of elements: >> >> <milestone-end content-type="page-end" rid="p19"/><milestone-start >> content-type="page-start" id="p20"/> >> >> because, perforce, page 19 ends where page 20 begins. Note in this >> case (due to the semantics of page break markers) the milestone-end >> element can never provide information we do not have already. (But it >> can contradict or confuse things if something is ever off with the >> pairing.) >> >> Is this really what we should do or is there another option? >> >> Put another way - am I correct to infer that the Tag Library directly >> excludes use of milestone-start in the way the TEI or HTML uses >> elements to indicate structures with only boundary markers? If so, am >> I missing something else that would make life easier? >> >> Thanks! >> Wendell >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com >> XML | XSLT | electronic publishing >> Eat Your Vegetables >> _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ >> > > ================================================================ > Deborah A Lapeyre mailto:dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301-315-9631 (USA) > Suite 207 Fax: 301-315-8385 > Rockville, MD 20850 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: Consultancy for XML, XSLT, and Schematron > ================================================================ > -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^
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