Re: [jats-list] Page breaks in books

["Debbie Lapeyre dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com
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