TEI EDW30 ODD Simple Example of ODD Text Lou Burnard and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen 5 June 1992 Paragraphs

As the smallest regular unit of prose, the paragraph represents the fundamental formal organizational unit for all prose text. Since prose can appear not only in the base tag set for prose (section ), but also in all other base tag sets, sometimes in large units and sometimes in small, paragraphs and their contents may occur in all other base tag sets as well.

Paragraphs can contain virtually any of the other elements described within this chapter, as well as many other elements specific to individual base or additional tag sets. These include: phrase-level elements like emphasis, quotation, or font shift floating structural units (crystals) such as bibliographic references or notes analytic or interpretive tags like those marking names, abbreviations, etc. items specific to individually activated additional tag sets like those for cross references, formulae, analysis and interpretation, or text criticism

In all cases, paragraphs are tagged with the p tag, which has the following description:

Gen. Sheridan says If the thing is pressed I think that Lee will surrender. Let the thing be pressed.

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The formal declaration of the p tag is this: paragraph contains a prose paragraph. Hallgerd was outside. There is blood on your axe, she said. What have you done?

I have now arranged that you can be married a second time, replied Thjostolf.

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This example shows very short paragraphs.

In some contexts, the paragraph may have specialized meaning (e.g. in the tag set for dictionaries, p is used to enclose any running text, and thus does not imply text set off as is conventionally done in running prose). May contain character data and phrase-level elements. - O (%soup;)

Tags available for marking such section boundaries are:

The milestone tag has the following formal declaration: milestone marks the boundary between sections of a text, as indicated by changes in a standard reference system. ed indicates which edition or version the milestone applies to. CDATA Any string of characters; usually a siglum conventionally used for the edition. #REQUIRED n number or name indicates the new number or other value for the unit which changes at this milestone. CDATA Any string of characters. #IMPLIED

The special value unnumbered should be used in passages which fall outside the normal numbering scheme (e.g. chapter heads, poem numbers or titles, or speaker attributions in verse drama). unit indicates what kind of section is changing at this milestone. CDATA page page breaks in the reference edition. column column breaks. line line breaks. book any units termed book, liber, etc. poem individual poems in a collection. canto cantos or other major sections of a poem. stanza stanzas within a poem, book, or canto. act acts within a play. scene scenes within a play or act. sectionsections of any kind. absent passages not present in the reference edition. #REQUIRED

If the milestone marks the beginning of a piece of text not present in the reference edition, the special value absent may be used as the value of unit. The normal interpretation is that the reference edition does not contain the text which follows, until the next milestone tag for the edition in question is encountered.

In addition to the values suggested, other terms may be appropriate (e.g. Stephanus for the Stephanus numbers in Plato). ... ... ]]>

Milestones for page and column should precede milestones for line numbers, but this and other logical requirements cannot be enforced automatically by SGML; for better validation, a concurrent markup stream should be used. May contain character data and phrase-level elements. - O EMPTY