Basic Structure of Encoding Line Breaks

The alignment is taken over from the original. Line breaks within headings, footnotes, endnotes, marginalia etc. are also taken into account.

Each line end is tagged by the empty element <lb/>. This is not implicit in any element, but is always set explicitly. Only the elements <pb>, <cb>, and <space> are without the following <lb> element.

Line breaks at element ends are placed behind the outermost closing element, but before </front>, </body> (and thus </floatingText>), </back> and </titlePage>.

<lg type="poem">
  <l>[text verse a]</l><lb/>
  <l>[text verse b]</l>
</lg><lb/>
<body>
  <div n="1">
    <p>[text paragraph a]</p><lb/>
    <p>[text paragraph b]</p>
  </div><lb/>
</body>