[oXygen-user] Pretty Print <lb/> in Oxygen
Syd Bauman
Mon Oct 27 12:25:47 CDT 2014
A few hours ago Ute Recker-Hamm posted a wonderful question to TEI-L,
the main list for the Text Encoding Initiative.[1]
She basically asked "what do y'all do to get your physical lines, as
encoded with the empty TEI <lb> element, to line up nicely in
oXygen?".
I remember asking a similar question a few years ago, and vaguely
recall being told that manipulating the options under "Preferences >
Editor / Format / XML" (in particular the "Preserve space" and
"Default space" lists) should get format-and-indent to do the trick.
However, I recall that I never got it working to my satisfaction, and
when I look through the archives of this list now, I can't find the
answer I recall.
So what is "it" that I want format-and-indent to do? When given a
text that looks like this:
view A
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<p>I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make
<lb/>its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live
<lb/>in Space.</p>
<p>Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles,
<lb/>Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining
<lb/>fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without
<lb/>the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows
<lb/>—only hard with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty
<lb/>correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago,
<lb/>I should have said “my universe:” but now my mind has been opened
<lb/>to higher views of things.</p>
I'd like it to end up formatted as it is now -- with each <lb>
starting a new line. If the desired line length were long enough, it
wouldn't be changed at all. If the desired line length were shorter,
it might look like this:
view B
---- -
<p>I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so,
but to make
<lb/>its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are
privileged to live
<lb/>in Space.</p>
<p>Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines,
Triangles,
<lb/>Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures,
instead of remaining
<lb/>fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the
surface, but without
<lb/>the power of rising above or sinking below it, very
much like shadows
<lb/>—only hard with luminous edges—and you will then have
a pretty
<lb/>correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a
few years ago,
<lb/>I should have said “my universe:” but now my mind has
been opened
<lb/>to higher views of things.</p>
What I *don't* want is for format-and-indent to make it look like
this:
view C
---- -
<p>I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make <lb/>its nature clearer to
you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live <lb/>in Space.</p>
<p>Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, <lb/>Squares, Pentagons,
Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining <lb/>fixed in their places, move freely
about, on or in the surface, but without <lb/>the power of rising above or sinking below it,
very much like shadows <lb/>—only hard with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty
<lb/>correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, <lb/>I should have
said “my universe:” but now my mind has been opened <lb/>to higher views of things.</p>
In fact, if I had my druthers, an input document that looked like
view C would come out of the processing looking like view A or B.
Note
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[1] Those of you who are members of a TEI list at Brown can find it
at https://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=ind1410&L=tei-l&F=&S=&P=64155.
I have not re-produced it here because I did not get the original
poster's permission to do so. (Not that I think it is illegal or
immoral to re-post without such permission, only that it's rude.)
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