Tweaks and consultation on the Sonnet 1609 markup
LSPW continues to work on the 1609 Sonnet markup, and referred three issues to me today; one was my problem (the CSS was failing to centre an <h2>
derived from a <head>
inside the main body of the text), one is still open (I can't find any instances of the problem), and the third is part of our gradual refinement of the way we handle letter-spacing. Many of the headers have big spaces between letters, and the initial transcription handled these by adding actual space characters; subsequent attempts to refine the spacing have run into problems, and we're now implementing what we probably should have done in the first place, which is careful use of letter-spacing
values expressed in ems, which can be carried straight over into the XHTML as CSS inline style properties, and also leave the text itself properly searchable.