G2: Drama

Drama introduces five sections that can be used in both front and back matter.

1. CastList-rw - The Dramatis Personae
2. Performance-rw - the list of actors and non-acting supporting roles
3. Programme-rw   used to tag a visual reproduction of a printed program for a specific performance.
4. TitleCredits-rw   used to tag screen title credits or primary credits. Includes both actor and other person elements
5. ClosingCredits-rw  used to tag screen closing credits. Primarily used for support role tagging.

There are three primary types of Drama sub-genres supported. These are provided to provide semantic and presentation control for different drama script documents. They are:

1. Drama-rw   used for stage performances
2. DramaScreen-rw  used for movie and TV screen plays.
3. DramaRadio-rw  used specifically for radio plays.

This diagram illustrates body-rw Drama-rw tagging only. The tagging is essentially identical for screen (DramaScreen-rw)and radio (DramaRadio-rw) plays.

Scene-rw  is are always nested inside Acts.

Prologue-rw, Epilogue-rw and Entracte-rw are at the same level as Act.

There are three content block structures:

<p class="set-rw">  Usually the first block in an Act or Scene which establishes the location and setting.

<p class="speaker-rw">  This is reserved primarily for DramaScreen where the character name is shown on a separate line.

<p><span class="speaker-rw">  Speech.   This is defined as a paragraph where the opening paragraph is immediately followed by a speaker span statement.

In the infrequent event that a speech is in paragraphs an empty paragraph following a speech defined paragraph is a speech continued. 

<p class="direction">   Used where a paragraph encapsulates directions.

There are two types of inline structures:

<span class="speaker-rw">   This is always the first element in a paragraph immediately following the opening <p> element. It wraps the

<span class="direction-rw">   This can be used on an inline selection.

All sections are at the same level in a simple one-act or scene based play.

Prologue and Epilogue if used are at the same level as scene.