Here are the recommended general rules for determining whether an element is to be inside or outside a paragraph:

• (1) Inside: These are elements that may not be moved in the article. They absolutely must be left where they were placed in the original text so that the meaning of the author’s statements is not lost. This rule applies to the following elements: “blocktext”, “blockquote”, “equation”, “example”, “equationgr”, “examplegr”, “unordlist”, “ordlist”, “relationlist”, “biblioref”, “verbatim”;
• (2) Outside: These are elements that may be moved in the article on the basis of various constraints, such as layout, without losing the meaning of the author’s statements. This rule applies to the following elements: “box”, “figure”, “boxgr”, “figuregr”, “objectgr”, “tablegr”, “object”, “table”.

You may go against the above rules in the following cases:

• (1) Inside: An article for which no paragraph numbering is desired. In this case, the “para” element must not be used under any circumstances. Therefore, the elements that should be found inside a paragraph will be used alone, without a paragraph. Here is a partial list of the types of articles that should not be numbered: indexes, works received, stage play, series of poems;
• (2) Outside: If an element that should generally be found outside a paragraph is preceded by a block of text that ends in a phrase such as “as shown in the following figure:”, it should be tagged inside the paragraph in which the block of text occurs. This is because it is closely related to the preceding block of text and, therefore, any moving of that element would result in a loss of meaning.

For tagging of interviews, putting each new statement by the interviewer and the interview subject’s response in the same paragraph is recommended.

example 1

<section1 id="s1n3">
    <para id="pa63">
        <blocktext>Deux accusés qui devaient comparaître mercredi matin se sont échappés
        du fourgon cellulaire en marche qui transportait 22 détenus au Palais de justice de
        Montréal.</blocktext>
        <ordlist numeration="decimal">
            <listitem>…</listitem>
            <listitem>…</listitem>
            <listitem>…</listitem>
        </ordlist>
    </para>
    <figure id="fi3">
        <no>Fig. 2</no>
        <caption lang="fr">
            <blocktext>Photo des accusés</blocktext>
        </caption>
        <mediaobject float="block">
            <image id="im7" imagetype="figure" />
        </mediaobject>
        <fignote id="nf1">…</fignote>
        <source>…</source>
    </figure>
    <para id="pa64">
        <blocktext>Le fourgon n'était plus qu'à un coin de rue du palais, à l'intersection des rues
        Viger et Hôtel de ville. L'un d'eux est Stéphane Labrie, 34 ans, un individu associé aux Hells
        Angels.</blocktext>
    </para>
</section1>

example 2

<para id="pa89">
    <blocktext>Pour Mme de Staël et les comparatistes qui vont suivre, la traduction est un révélateur
    de l’esprit national : c'est une pratique de médiation qui a pour but de permettre à une nation de
    devenir plus pleinement elle-même. Dans De l'Allemagne, par exemple, elle écrit :</blocktext>
    <blockquote>
        <blocktext>Les nations doivent se servir de guide les unes aux autres, et toutes
        auraient tort de se priver des lumières qu’elles peuvent mutuellement se prêter. Il y a quelque
        chose de très singulier dans la différence d’un peuple à un autre : le climat, l’aspect de la nature,
        la langue, le gouvernement, enfin surtout les événements de l’histoire, puissance plus extraordinaire
        encore que toutes les autres, contribuent à ces diversités [... ].</blocktext>
        <source>III, p. 31</source>
    </blockquote>
    <blocktext>Frayer avec l’étrangeté, c’est aller à la recherche de ressources qui serviront à alimenter
    la littérature nationale, à maintenir et renouveler la diversité des peuples.</blocktext>
</para>