Re: [jats-list] Page breaks in books

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
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