Option to ignore <BR> elements

[simongray]

Problem statement

Many of the TEI documents on Clarin.dk are extemely narrow, making reading them pretty hard if once is to respect the original formatting. An option to enable/disable this on-demand could be pretty useful.

Implementation

This could be implemented as

br { display: none; }

However, one complication is the fact that it would need to also apply to shadow-dom elements since it is used in the TEI reader. Perhaps the way to do it is by setting a variable in the page :root and using this as the display value for
in tei.css, e.g.

br { display: var(--tei-br-display) ; }

Unsure if this would work. Another option is to rebuild the Hiccup every time this setting changes.

[simongray]

A lot of this is caused by a lack of column support, though, so perhaps this is worth exploring first? e.g. dkclarin-7106986f-0142-419a-8e6d-d84b66d4ae3e_bolli_1678-B_CTB_body.xml uses the <cb> element to mark column beginnings.

[simongray]

Column support has been added in c9677ba