[DCRM-L] Help needed in thinking through order of Area 1

[Jennifer K. Nelson]

Hello fabulous MSS Working Group!

I'm sneakily writing to just our little group and not to the whole 
dcrm-mss list b/c I don't want any interlopers weighing in on this yet :)

I am taking a first stab at inserting our Area 1 Version 5 into a Word 
doc using the style sheet framework of DCRM(B) (header1s, 2s, 3s, normal 
paragraph text, examples, etc.) and I am having a hard time deciding 
whether or not "Supplied Title" should come before "Formal Title" or 
vice versa. We decided in our meeting that "Supplied Title" should come 
first because that will be the treatment given to the majority of 
manuscripts. So far so good.

HOWEVER, if ST goes first, that pushes the "Preliminary Rule" and 
"Prescribed Punctuation," etc. into a weird place, does it not? Or does 
that stuff also apply to supplied titles? It would seem that it would 
not since - for example with letters, ledgers and such - we build titles 
that include the author's name so the author/creator's name would not be 
preceded by a diagonal slash.

It doesn't make sense to have something called Preliminary Rule be 
inserted half way into the text.

On the other hand, if we don't put Supplied Title first, we have to get 
through "Formal Title," "Parallel Titles" and "Other Title Information" 
before there's a natural place for ST to be fit in - just before 
"Statements of Responsibility."

So, I'm stuck. Any thoughts would be most welcome!

Jenny

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Jennifer K. Nelson
Reference Librarian
The Robbins Collection
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510.643.9709
Fax: 510.642.8325
jnelson at law.berkeley.edu
www.law.berkeley.edu/library/robbins/