Link from Annotations to Critical Paratexts

Critical paratexts are usually written in paragraphs. Paragraphs are the smallest convenient structural unit to which you can link. In your critical paratext, assign an XML:id to each paragraph, whether you plan to cite it or not. Other people will use these XML:ids in other contexts to cite your work. Once your critical paratext is stable (i.e., you do not anticipate adding further paragraphs), number each paragraph consecutively by adding _p1, _p2, and so on to the XML:id of the document containing the paragraphs.

In the following example, the XML:id of the document is “qme_SQMPerfInt”, and the paragraph is the 24th sequentially numbered paragraph: You can point to this paragraph from an annotation or another critical paratext with the <ref> element, @target attribute, and a value consisting of: As your prose and process demand, you can wrap the <ref> element around a string of prose in your note or critical paratext or around a parenthetical direction. If you wish to point to a LEMDO edition of a different play, you will want to use a parenthetical citation and a “bibl” pointer. (Documentation for this procedure is forthcoming.)

We can renumber paragraphs and references thereto programmatically if necessary (e.g., if peer reviewers require you to add new material), but you can avoid making work for the LEMDO developers by not numbering your paragraphs and not making the intra-edition links until you are confident that the edition is relatively stable. Leave yourself an XML comment and come back to the linking later.