I just wanted to blog about a few things that MH showed me how to do today that will make my life as an XML encoder so much easier from here on in:

• In the Agre'emens, the Partie and the initial are actually on the same line, so the formworks is different: <fw type="sig" rend="margin-right: 4em;"><hi rend="font-style: italic;">I. Partie. </hi>[and in order to have 10 spaces come up as 10 spaces in XML, we use this little formula here and repeat it for however many spaces there are: & (+) # (+) 160 (+) ;]... <hi rend="font-weight: bold;">A</hi></fw>.
• Also, when I'm adjusting lines to indent further than they do normally, I do not actually want to use a <hi rend="text-indent: 4em;"> tag but actually a <hi rend="padding-left: 4em;">. What MH explained to me is that the text-indent value is for a block of text where the spacing of one line is altered. ... I think...
• So then, MH, this brings me to a question: when there is no indent at the beginning of a paragraph where there normally would be in the text, would I be right to keep using <hi rend="text-indent: 0">???