Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

February 17, 2016

Catchwords

Filed under: Manuscripts,Text Encoding Initiative (TEI),Texts — Patrick Durusau @ 7:48 pm

Johan Oosterman tweets:

Look, the next page begins with these words! Very helpful man makes clear how catchwords work. HuntingtonHM1048

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HuntingtonHM1048

Catchwords were originally used to keep pages in order for binding. You won’t encounter them in post-19th century materials but still interesting from a markup perspective.

The catchword and in this case with a graphic, appears on the page and the next page does appear with these words. Do you capture the catchword? Its graphic? The relationship between the catchword and the opening words of the next page? What if there is an error?

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