EpiDoc follows TEI practice in marking line breaks on the support (as opposed to verse lines) using the lb (line-breakGB 2007-05-23: though I use the expansion "line-begins" when presenting this to students) empty element to mark the point at which the line breaks.
Because there is no containing element encapsulating lines, any information about the numbering, rendition, or condition of an entire line need to be marked in an attribute on the preceeding lb. For this reason, therefore, it is our convention to place an lb at the beginning of every epigraphic line in the edition, including the first. Any rend or numbering attributes on that lb refer to all text between the current at the following line-break. (See example 1 below.)
An lb that occurs mid-word should be given an attribute type="worddiv" (this, among other things, generates the hyphen at the end of the preceding line in XSLT).
See also direction of text.
Verse lines
In addition to marking epigraphic lines, which is obligatory in any case, an editor may choose to tag verse groups and lines using the TEI lg (line-group) and l (line) elements. Within the verse lines, however, the start of each line of text on the support still needs to be marked with an lb element. In other words, lg and l are replacing the containing ab, but not the lbs. (See example 3 below.)
See also verse inscriptions.
Traditional typographic representation
Panciera, p....:
abc / abcnot addressednot addressed
Regular Expression Test
blah
blah
blah
EpiDoc appearance with standard XSLT
abc abcἡ πόλιςον Λικίννιον Οὐαλεριανὸντῆς μεγάλης ἀρετῆς τοῦτονμέγαν ἡγεμονῆα Ἑλλάδιον Κᾶρες στῆσανἀμειβόμενοι
Notes
1. The standard EpiDoc stylesheets represent the line-breaks in the more usual form as new lines in the edition, rather than the continuous text with '/' separating epigraphic lines as in Krummrey-Panciera.2. The standard XSL does not currently distinguish between verse and prose inscriptions: the verse tagging demonstrated above could be rendered either as epigraphic or as verse lines according to preference. (See ala2004 16 for the alternative.)
Responsibility for this section
authorGabriel Bodard