Content alignment

Where alignment communicates information or forms an important part of the work, some poems, songs, and quotes need a more complex XML structure to capture alignment.

PMI	Page make-up instruction.

Content alignment set in the manuscript (through use of alignment options in Word) should be maintained in the XML. A page-makeup instruction (or <PMI>) will indicate in a frontlist manuscript if complex alignment is important and must be replicated.

If backlist, important alignment should be indicated in a manifest.

If content cannot be captured using the typical capture methods then alignment can be set by using alignment attribute on displayText, lineGroup and line.

alignment on displayText and lineGroup will align the block of content.

alignment on p and line will align the line within the block of content.

Values for alignment can be: left, right, centre, or justified.

Poetry with unusual alignment

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Poem

displayText - no need to set alignment, as all children need alignment (default sets this to left).

lineGroup – no need to set alignment, as all children need alignment. All lines within this lineGroup are alignment=”centre”.

lineGroup – needs alignment=”centre”, as children require different alignments within the lineGroup. Last line in this lineGroup is alignment="centre".

lineGroup – needs alignment=”centre”, as children are left aligned within a centred block of text. Use of no-break space is needed to indent the second and fourth lines.

XML


      <miscMatter class="other" id="actrade-9780198183433-miscMatter-31">
        <titleGroup id="actrade-9780198183433-titleGroup-48"><title>
 <p><?Page pageId="278"?>
                         <milestone num="278" unit="page" id="actrade-9780198183433-milestone-1229"/>The Law of Freedom</p>
 <p>IN A</p>
 <p>PLATFORM:<milestone unit="fragment-marker" id="actrade-9780198183433-milestone-1230">
                             <sup>1</sup>
                         </milestone>
                     </p></title>
        </titleGroup>
        <textMatter><div1 id="actrade-9780198183433-div1-18">
 <p>
                         <displayText class="other" id="actrade-9780198183433-displayText-27">
     <lineGroup id="actrade-9780198183433-lineGroup-54">
       <line alignment="centre">Or, True</line>
       <line alignment="centre">Magistracy Restored.</line>
       <line alignment="centre">Humbly presented to <i>Oliver Cromwel</i>,<milestone unit="fragment-marker" id="actrade-9780198183433-milestone-1231">
                                         <sup>2</sup>
                                     </milestone> General of the</line>
       <line alignment="centre">Common-wealths Army in England, Scotland, and</line>
       <line alignment="centre">Ireland.<milestone unit="fragment-marker" id="actrade-9780198183433-milestone-1232">
                                         <sup>3</sup>
                                     </milestone> And to all
                    English-men my brethren whether in</line>
       <line alignment="centre">Church-fellowship,<milestone unit="fragment-marker" id="actrade-9780198183433-milestone-1233">
                                         <sup>4</sup>
                                     </milestone> or not in
                    Church-fellowship, both</line>
       <line alignment="centre">sorts walking as they conceive according to the Order of
                    the</line>
       <line alignment="centre">Gospel: and from them to all the Nations in the
                    World.</line>
     </lineGroup>
     <lineGroup id="actrade-9780198183433-lineGroup-55" alignment="centre">
       <line>Wherein is Declared, What is Kingly Government, and</line>
       <line>what is Commonwealths Government.</line>
       <line alignment="centre">By <i>Jerrard Winstanley</i>.</line>
     </lineGroup>
     <lineGroup id="actrade-9780198183433-lineGroup-56" alignment="centre">
       <line>
                                     <i>In thee, O England, is the Law arising up to shine</i>,</line>
       <line>
                                     <i>&amp;#xa0;&amp;#xa0;&amp;#xa0;If thou receive and practise it, the crown
                      wil be thine</i>.</line>
       <line>
                                     <i>If thou reject, and stil remain a froward Son to be</i>,</line>
       <line>
                                     <i>&amp;#xa0;&amp;#xa0;&amp;#xa0;Another Land will receive it, and take the
                      crown from thee</i>.</line>
     </lineGroup>
   </displayText>
 </p></div1>
        </textMatter>
      </miscMatter>