Statement of mark-up practices and protocols:
Divisions and Global Structure:
Each of the two volumes of the Every-Day Book is represented in 12 large XML (TEI-lite, P5) files, each corresponding to one month's worth of entries. Divisions in the separate month-files are nested to reflect the overall structure. Each file has a single level-1 division (
), which encloses the appropriate number of level-2 divisions (
) corresponding to each day of the month. The month and day files are identified by number, using the global "n" attribute in TEI.
The divisions within each day vary according to content. The fundamental attribute here is "article" which is used to designate either a single unified passage focusing on some clearly defined topic or a collection of materials--letters, poetic excerpts, etc.--about that topic. In the latter case, the materials within the "article" div are identified by one of the following attributes: "letter" (most commonly for a correspondent's contribution), "excerpt" (for a passage drawn typically from some other antiquarian text), "poem" (for a poem or excerpt in verse--either original or quoted). Each day's entry is concluded with a separate div using the "calendar" attribute to designate Hone's practice of ending with this meteorological information.
In sum, the div structure of a month file will likely look something like this:
Pagination:
The Every-Day Book is, for the most part, printed in two-column pages with numbers at the top of each column. (Hone occasionally refers to these as "page numbers," though "column numbers" would be more accurate since there are two to each side of each leaf.) This structure can create some challenges when converted into the nested, linear form required by XML. For instance, there are fairly frequent instance where two partial columns are connected at the top of the page with an engraving in the middle across both columns and then two more partial but connected columns at the bottom.