pages in texts

by "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>

Date:	Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:20:47 -0500
To:	<hwg-gutenberg-dtds(at)hwg.org>, <hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>
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I am struggeling with the etext of the scarlet letter. The problem is that
the Etext retains the original page numbering.

As others have pointed out the 'page' element in the bookfrag.dtd is not up
to the task. What we need is a 'pagenum' element that can not only appear
between paragraphs, but also in paragraphs.

IOW we need to modify the general entities as follows

<!ENTITY % inline.class
"|quote|emph|ital|reference|date|place|name|graphic|txterr|mkuperr|misc|page
num ">

<!ENTITY % block.class
"|letter|blockquote|footnote|note|list|deflist|table|blockgraphic|pagenum">

And pagenum is declared as

<!ELEMENT pagenum (#PCDATA)>

As we have frozen the DTD's, and as will be a good three months before we
get out our 'official' dtd's I am going to put yet another interim dtd up on
the web site which will incorporate these changes.

I will call it gutbkplaypg1.dtd
the module is bkplaypg.dtd

download them from www.hwg.org/opcenter/gutenberg/xmlfiles

They will be 'open' for modification for the next month. I would be grateful
for stress testing of them!

Frank

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