White space

Vertical white space (e.g. between paragraphs or sections) is not ordinarily recorded at all at the WWP; that is, we do not record the actual vertical distance between pieces of text.

Horizontal white space (for instance, indentation and alignment) should be recorded, wherever possible, using a renditional default. If the space is anomalous it can be recorded on the renditional attribute of the specific element in question. Thus for instance if all paragraphs in a text are indented, that fact should be recorded as part of the default rendition for the p element. If one paragraph differs from all the others in having no indentation, that fact should be recorded using the renditional attribute for that paragraph element.

If there is white space between stanzas or lgs in verse, it should be included in the renditional information of the lg it precedes, using “space-above(yes)”.