Add sp to att.placement

[JanelleJenstad]

It would be useful to be able to encode the placement of speeches on the dramatic page in cases where a speech is beside another speech or in the marginal area. Please add the <sp> element to the att.placement attribute class.

Use Cases

1. Hamlet, second quarto from 1604/5. In the Mousetrap scene (i.e., Hamlet's play) there are two speeches that are set to the right of other speeches. The placement is important for editors and for people studying performance because the placement suggests that Hamlet interrupts or speaks over the Player Queen. We see similarly significant speech placements across the corpus of early modern drama and would like to be able to use the @place attribute and values from our place taxonomy to capture this significant information (not least because we want to be able to search for speeches that appear beside others): (Note that we will likely use the <spGrp> element to group these speeches.

2. As You Like It, 1623 Folio. Here's an example where the compositor has crunched in a speech in the marginal space. It's not semantically significant, but if one is interested in compositorial practice and mise-en-page, one would want to be able to indicate placement.

Current encoding is this: `

Ham. That’s wormwood

`

Desired encoding is this: `

Ham. That’s wormwood

`

[sydb]

:+1:

[lb42]

This sort of placement is quite uncommon in 19c material. What we have to contend with far more frequently is things like this:

Would this change help with that? How would you recommend encoding it?

[JanelleJenstad]

Congrats on the release, folks! Now that "Six Degrees" is out the door, I'm hoping you'll have a moment to deal with this ticket and linked ticket #2572. It's an easy fix.

[JanelleJenstad]

This sort of placement is quite uncommon in 19c material. What we have to contend with far more frequently is things like this:

Would this change help with that? How would you recommend encoding it?

@lb42: That is a very interesting mise-en-page. This ticket won't help with it but please post it to the mailing list so we can find out what others have to say about how they are handling it.