Re: use case: page based scholarly reference?

On 10/06/2015 21:30 , Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 14:02 +0200, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> In scholarly publishing precise (scholarly) reference is a must.
>> This, as of today, usually includes references to page numbers. This
>> can take specific formats,
>
> One way this is handled with digital editions today is to have an
> empty element for page breaks (or to use that element to contain
> foliation and other page apparatus such as running headers). E.g. TEI
> uses pb for a page break.

This is interesting (at least for print-first content). I wonder: has 
anyone tried to express this elegantly in HTML?

It doesn't seem to warrant a new element. I know that ReSpec for 
instance will generate <!--OddPage--> comments before major sections in 
order to force a page break in html2ps, but that's just a ghastly 
convention.

Maybe some specialisation of <hr>?

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Thursday, 11 June 2015 09:03:53 UTC