1. emphasized words and foreign words that appear in italics should be tagged <EMPH> as in <P>I called Taff <EMPH>stupid</EMPH> because (see p. 106)
2. titles of books should be tagged <TITLE> as in <P> E. R. "Teddy" Evans, 31; Lieutenant, Royal Navy; wrote <TITLE>South With Scott</TITLE>; became Admiral (see p. 13)
3. names of ships will by treated using the <NAME> tag
4. all other italics used, such as for titles of poems and for Scott's journal entries should be ignored
We will use REND="right" to align a line of poetry with the right margin as in <L N="1" REND="right">Kathleen can you hear me</L> (see p. 135).
<DIV TYPE="journal" ID="he004">
<P>December 2.—Victor's shot. Bowers silent at hoosh*. Horse meat.</P>
<NOTE N="*">*Thick camp-soup with a base of pemmican</NOTE>
</DIV>
(see p. 37)
To mark a long dash which is usually typed as -- use —
To mark a hyphen or single short dash, just use the ASCII character -
To mark the degree sign for farenheit or centigrade, use the character entity deg between an ampersand and a semi-colon as in <P>February 28/29—Last night -40 ° F. (see p. 124)