6.1 Abstracts, Arguments, and Summaries

6.1.1 SGML

Consider using the unnumbered divisional tag <--dv type=> ... </--dv> with the appropriate value. Abstracts usually will have no place in a nested hierarchical structure. Here an editor might regard Paradise Lost as a macaronic work, shifting between prose and verse, and so tag the argument as a numbered <pmdv3 type="argument">.

TEI P3 (pp. 865-66) uses the floating tag <argument>..</argument>. This deprives the argument of a structural role in the work.

<pmdv type="argument">
<heading>
THE ARGUMENT.
</heading>
<p>
This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole
Subject, {{}Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon
of Paradise wherein he was plac't:{}} Then touches
...
</pmdv>

6.1.2 COCOA

Consider using the unnumbered divisional tag <--dv> with one of the attributes abstract, argument, or summary before the passage, and close it with another </--dv>. E.g.,

<pmdv argument>
<tt heading>
THE ARGUMENT.
<tt argument >
<p>
This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole
Subject, {Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon
of Paradise wherein he was plac't:} Then touches
...
</pmdv>