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13 changes: 8 additions & 5 deletions guidelines/xml/trans-linebreak.xml
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<ptr target="a"/>
</listRef>--></p>

<p>EpiDoc follows TEI practice in marking line breaks on the support (as opposed to verse lines) using the <gi>lb</gi>,
though the expansion "line-begins" is in many ways a more useful way of thinking about this element. <gi>lb</gi> is an empty element
to mark the point at which the line breaks (or begins).</p>
<p>EpiDoc follows TEI practice in marking line beginnings on the support (as opposed to verse lines) using the <gi>lb</gi>.
<gi>lb</gi> is an empty element to mark the point at which the line begins.</p>

<p>Because there is no containing element encapsulating lines, any information about the numbering, rendition, or condition
of an entire line needs to be marked in an attribute on the preceding <gi>lb</gi>. For this reason, therefore, it is
of an entire line needs to be marked in an attribute in the <gi>lb</gi>. For this reason, therefore, it is
our convention to place an <gi>lb</gi> at the beginning of every epigraphic line in the edition, including the first.
Any <att>rend</att> or numbering attributes on that <gi>lb</gi> refer to all text between the current and the following line-break.
Any <att>rend</att> or numbering attributes on that <gi>lb</gi> refer to all text between the current and the following line-begin.
(See example below.)</p>

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<name>Charlotte Tupman</name>
<name/>
</respStmt></bibl>
<bibl><respStmt>
<resp>author</resp>
<name>Thomas Kollatz</name>
<name/>
</listBibl>
</div>
</div>