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Subject: Re: [docbook] marking up a play
2008/10/29 Hudson, Scott <Scott.Hudson@flatironssolutions.com>: > Thanks for the feedback. Now, what to call it? drama? (what if it's a comedy?) play? script? > > I think the part level sounds intriguing, section makes sense. Both? Preference? I think this depends on the intended usage! For example, we mark up the Penguin Shakespeare (for various reasons we have done from print materials - it was painful). Now, that has an introduction from the editor a chronology (we use glossaries to mark those up), the play itself and a large appendix of notes. We mark up that as something like: <book> <preface><!--- the intro --></preface> <glossary><!-- the chronology --></preface> <part><!-- act 1---> <chapter><!-- scene 1 --></chapter> .... </part> .... <appendix><!-- the notes --></appendix> </book> We have given serious consideration to using a play element at part level to contain the text itself (and either allow it to contain chapters for acts or create an act element).. <book> <preface><!--- the intro --></preface> <glossary><!-- the chronology --></preface> <play> <act><!-- act 1---></act> .... </play> .... <appendix><!-- the notes --></appendix> </book> This would work nicely when we are marking up something like the Tennessee Williams collections we publish (five plays in one book). However, were we to want to produce a book about drama containing extracts of arbitrary size we might well want to be able to mark them up at section level as well. Now, I know that I've used <play> through this but I like 'drama' much more (possibly with a class attribute). > > Any additional markup needed to support it? We intentionally left out dramatis personae and stagedir, as other markup could be used for the same purpose. We added those (direction, inlinedirection) nic -- Nic Gibson Director, Corbas Consulting Editorial and Technical Consultancy http://www.corbas.co.uk/
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