It is often useful to know the page breaks from the print edition of a book. They may be used as targets for subject index entries that identify the page of the entry or to display a text with the pagination of the print edition. Page breaks are marked by the insertion of <pb /> tags, with the n attribute giving the page number of the upcoming page (<pb n="37" /> or <pb n="xii" />). These elements should appear at the start of the identified page. So that it is not necessary to add the n attribute for every page, it will be added by the ThML conversion software by auto-incrementing the previous pb element with an n attribute, if available.

In many cases images of pages will also be available on line. The pb element also takes an href attribute specifying a URI for an image of the page (e.g. <pb n="37" href="gif/0021a.gif" />). These will also be added in the conversion process by auto-incrementing previous values if necessary. The increment algorithm will be derived heuristically, looking at the first three pb elements. It should be able at least to handle filenames ending in sequences of numbers such as these: (001.gif, 002.gif, 003.gif, …), (001a.gif, 001b.gif, 002a.gif, …), or (001a.gif, 002a.gif, 003a.gif, …) changing at every <pb/> element, or at every other (in case two pages are on each scanned image).

The XML notation for notes uses the <note> element, following the syntax used by TEI Lite [e.g. <note place="foot" resp="whp">See http://www_tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/lite </note>]. The place attribute specifies where the appears in the text (e.g. end, foot, inline, interlinear, or margin). The resp attribute identifies the person responsible for the note -- for example, the author, editor, or a person's initials. The anchored=no attribute value may be added to specify that the note is not anchored at an exact location; marginal notes typically are not anchored.

Attributions to authors, of poetry or letters for example, may be given the Attribution paragraph style, as in the "G. Ter Steegen" attribution in the poem above. These are by default rendered as right-justified, italic text. Names that occur in text may be given the Name character style. Then they can be found for inclusion in an index of names referred to. It is also possible to make the name appear in the index in another form by using the XML <name> element instead of the paragraph style, as in this example: <name title="Ter Steegen, Gerhard">G. Ter Steegen</name>. Here the title attribute is used as the index entry.

Citations of other works such as books or treatises may be marked with the Citation character style or the <citation> element. That element may also take an href attribute to specify a URI for the cited work, if available. The <date> element may be used to mark dates that occur in the text. A value attribute may be used to specify the date in ISO format, as in this example: <date value="1997.12.25">last Christmas</date>.

The scripRef element may take a title and a type attribute, used to specify the name and type of reference. If type is unspecified, the reference is assumed to be an unspecified mention of a scripture passage. If title has a value and type has one of the CCEL scripture reference values, including Article, Hymn, Sermon, Treatise, Commentary, and others, the reference will be included in the library-wide scripture reference index under the specified category.

Context is sometimes necessary in interpreting a reference. A passage may refer to Romans 8:28 at one point and later to verses 29 and 30 and chapter 10:8-13. A parser should be able to identify the context in most cases, but in some cases it may be necessary to set the context or turn the parser off. The <scripContext version="NIV" passage="Romans 8" /> element is used to set the default context for the parser, and the <scripParseOff /> and <scripParseOn /> elements may be used to turn the parser off or on, to prevent linking of a passage such as "Bob had 2 apples and John 3." The version attribute may be set in a scripContext element but it is never set by the parser.

In theological texts, scripture is also sometimes quoted. In this case, it is not desirable to link the reference to the scripture passage, but it may be desirable to incorporate the passage into a table of scripture references. Quotations of scripture may be marked with the <scripture> element. A passage may be represented as in this example:

The title attribute is used in the subject index. If it is not present, the text inside the <index> element is used as a title.

A document may use several user-selected types of index entries. An XML element (<insertIndex type="subject" />) is also provided to specify that a sorted, hierarchical index of all the "subject" (e.g.) index entries should be inserted at that point, with links to the appropriate locations in the text. Certain additional index types are also understood: <insertIndex type="name" /> inserts an index of all names marked with the <name> element or style; if the title attribute is present, it is used as the index entry. Similarly, indexes may be inserted for citations, dates, foreign words and phrases, images (<img>), and scripture references (<scripRef>).

If the language uses characters not available in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set, they may be represented in Unicode (preferred), as in this Greek example (λογος) and this Hebrew example (הלהי) using the Unicode font Lucida Sans Unicode. Alternatively, they may be represented with the Latin-1 character set using an appropriate font. For example, <foreign lang="el" style="font-family: SIL Galatia"></foreign>. The Greek and Hebrew fonts used for the CCEL are the excellent, freeware SIL Galatia and SIL Ezra fonts and related software from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, used here in a Greek example ( and a Hebrew example (hwhy).