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

[Jennifer K. Nelson]

oops! it did go to the whole list. oh well! everyone is free to weigh in!

On 7/29/2009 2:09 PM, Jennifer K. Nelson wrote:
> 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
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The Robbins Collection
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