ASSp processing question for spans of text

[LEMDO-PM]

In emdH5_GenIntro, we have a long quote that spans two speeches. We're using a single <ptr> element to link back to emd H5_FM. Here is how it is encoded: <ptr type="localCit" target="doc:emdH5_FM#emdH5_FM_a4_s7_sp22 doc:emdH5_FM#emdH5_FM_a4_s7_sp23"/>. On the site, only the first speech is rendering in the citation. Is that what we would expect with this encoding? Do we need two <ptr> elements? Or would we expect it to render showing both ASSp numbers?

[martindholmes]

I don't think we had considered the possibility that spans stretching across speeches would be linked.

[martindholmes]

@LEMDO-PM Are these rare cases which only span two speeches? If so, I think I would create two separate pointers, one pointing to each speech, and put a hyphen between them.

[martindholmes]

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[LEMDO-PM]

@martindholmes, I don't expect that this will be the only instance, but it seems to be relatively rare. I can do a search later on this week to find out how often it's currently occurring.

[martindholmes]

Since it would be very problematic to process this, and conversely it's very easy for the editor to create two separate pointers, I think this should simply be a task to update the documentation to make this clear: if you're annotating a span of text which runs across the boundary between ASSP units, then create your citation using two distinct pointers with a hyphen between them.

[LEMDO-PM]

That sounds good. Thanks!! I've added it to my documentation list.