Subject: Re: [jats-list] Page breaks in books From: "Alexander Schwarzman aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:59:19 -0000 |
Maybe this usage could become an example in the Tag Library... Right now, the <target> page in the Tag Library reads, "No sample is available at this time." Alexander ('Sasha') Schwarzman, Content Technology Architect phone: +1.202.416.1979 | e-mail: aschwarzman@xxxxxxx The Optical Society (OSA) 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 USA www.osa.org On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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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