Working on the Choliere
I've started re-working the Choliere text, which EM prepared as part of her workshop last year, to go up on the site. It's generally pretty good, but there are many fixes needed. This is what I've done so far:
- Fixed a lot of
@rendattributes which were not CSS. - Changed
<fw type="pageNum">to@type="folioNum", since these are folio number showing only on the recto. - Added lots of header information (still waiting for some from CC).
- Added the
<tagsDecl>/<rendition>elements for describing the basic page layout. - Moved all folio number tags before the running title headers, because they float. This is standard on our site; it makes the rendering easier.
- Enhanced some of the
@rendattribute CSS in the front to make the rendering better approximate the original.
The most urgent problem that remains is the issue of the little marginal subject headings; these are exactly like those in the 1609 Sonnet, where we've handled them with <argument> tags, which are rendered into the margin. However, there, each little heading signalled the end of one <lg> and the beginning of another, which is logical (new heading, new topic, new line group). In the Choliere, whole chapters constitute a single paragraph, so there's no division into which you could insert an <argument> tag. I'm still working on this. I think the tag is the right one to use, but the schema is blocking me. In addition, I'm not at all sure that these unbroken blocks of text are rightly described as paragraphs (they're marked with <p>). They really are "anonymous blocks". But changing to <ab> still doesn't allow me to insert the <argument> tag.
Finally, chapter headings are marked as <p> tags containing <title> elements. I think we really should be using <head> elements there.
