What are the line-break tags?

There are only three tags to choose from when putting the line breaks into a folio.

The first one is this one:
<lb/>

This tells the computer that the line break is normal: it comes between two different words, and there is no hyphen written in the folio.

The second type of line break is this one:
<lb break=”no”/>

This tells the computer that there is a word which starts on the line above and continues on the line below, but there is no written hyphen.

The third type of line break is this one:
<lb rend="hyphen" break="no"/>

This tag tells the computer that the line break comes in the middle of the word, and that there is a written hyphen in the manuscript.

Got it. Show me some examples!

Let’s have a look at these tags with snippets of the manuscript too.

Here’s an example from the manuscript called Q. The first line shown ends in ‘toda su’ and the next line starts with ‘hueste’. This example shows a normal line break, between two separate words, so we can use this tag:
<lb/>

This is an example from the E2 manuscript. You can see a line break which splits a word into two, but without a written hyphen. The top line ends in ‘to’ and the line below starts with ‘do’ – ‘todo’ but the scribe has not used a hyphen. I’m going to use this tag to tell the computer that:
<lb break=”no”/>

Here is an example of a line break splitting a word, but with a hyphen. The upper line ends with ‘fi’ and the lower line starts with ‘zo’ – ‘fizo’. You can see a small flick of the pen after 'fi'. This is a hyphen. The tag for this is
<lb rend="hyphen" break="no"/>.