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The Sample Pages image you saw on the introductory page of this tutorial is not a true copy of the actual pages in the actual text; there is no press figure on that particular page of the actual text. Insofar as press figures (and catchwords) are concerned, the picture is a fabrication for the purpose of instruction.
The catchword is a word printed on the bottom line of a page, usually the verso, which corresponds to the first word of the following page. The catchword is intended to aid the printer in collating the printed sheets before they are bound.
The WWP records any renditional distinction in catchwords using the
rend= attribute on <mw>. If only part of the catchword is
renditionally distinct, we will use <hi>
as necessary to indicate the renditional shifts within the
catchword. We do not do any content-based encoding within catchwords
(e.g. we do not use <persName>,
etc. within catchwords).
The WWP encodes any discrepancies between the catchword and its
corresponding word at the top of the next page, using <sic>, without a corr= attribute. If the catchword reprints only
part of the corresponding word, we do not use <sic>, but rather ignore the difference. We
also would not encode with <sic> any
differences in capitalization or rendition between the catchword and
the corresponding word.
The WWP encodes any hyphens within catchwords as ordinary hyphens (using the character "-"). We do not encode them as soft hyphens, since they are not intended to disappear if line breaks are removed.
From Poems on Several Occasions by Elizabeth Carter (pictured here):
[an error occurred while processing this directive]<mw type="pressFig" rend="align(left)">7</mw><mw type="catch" rend="align(right)break(no)">Make</mw><pb>
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