This version of the Folger Digital Texts uses TEI Simple to encode the Shakespeare texts edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. The major goal of recasting the texts in this manner is to make them interoperable with a large corpus of early modern texts derived from the EEBO-TCP transcriptions and encoded in TEI Simple with linguistic annotation.
For a full description of the encoding practices of the Folger Digital Texts consult their
Words, spaces, and punctuation characters are numbered sequentially, incremented by 10.
Most other elements begin with an element-specific prefix, followed by a reference to the Folger Through Line Number, a sequential numbering of the numbered lines in the text. If an element is inline with play text, it has the same line number as the line where it begins. If it begins on a line following play text, a decimal number is appended and incremented as necessary. If it falls between a speech prefix and the play text, a ".0" is appended to the value of the following line number.