Devonshire

The list below shows the list of abbreviations using the RET system here.

There are a number of issues I need some input on:

• The following items seem to me to be inconsistent:
  _y (no parentheses)
  d, (no parentheses)
  e9 (no parentheses)
  gA} (missing parenthesis)
  y+t+ (no parentheses)
  y+t+} (missing parenthesis)
  yogh (no parentheses)
  {(th)+u+} (wrong parentheses)
  {} (no abbreviation!)
  If they do need to be regularized, they need either to be corrected or added to the list of corrections on the wiki. Not being familiar with the text, I shouldn't really be doing that myself.
• Some combinations don't appear in the RET list,a nd can't be deduced (by me, at any rate). Those have been marked in the list below with three question marks. I need expert guidance on these.
• As I mentioned in my last post, the omission of an encoded long-s seems to me to render the whole idea of a non-normalized display moot. We can't deduce what is a long-s mechanically, so any display would fail to include it. There's little point, in my view, in a display which goes to some effort to hack up a "c ending with a raised hook" using Unicode character combinations when the same word contains a long-s which is rendered as a normal s. So I'd like some guidance on whether it's worth doing this at all. Should we simply display the normalized forms which are already in the text, and supply the scribal info for brevigraphs etc. in explanatory mouseovers? Or is there a plan to encode the long-s characters at some point?

            _y                 y with macron (no parentheses?)
            d,                 d with tail descending (no parentheses?)
            e9                 e + character that looks like a 9??? (no parentheses?)
            gA}                g with a curled or flourished u or a (missing {)
            y+t+               double-letter abbr. for that using y and superscript t (no parenth?)
            y+t+}              ditto ({ missing?)
            yogh              yogh (no parenth?)
            {(th)+u+}          double-letter abbr. for thou or you using thorn and superscript u
            {(th}+em+}        double-letter abbr. for thou or you using thorn and superscript em
            {9}                upwards hook following a consonant, indicating us, os, is, s
            {_a}               a-tittle: tittle or tilde over a, indicating omitted m or n
            {_e}               e-tittle: tittle or tilde over e, indicating omitted m or n
            {_i}                i-tittle: tittle or tilde over i, indicating omitted m or n
            {_m}              m-tittle: tittle or tilde over m, "standing for various things"
            {_n}               n-macron:  n with final otiose raised line of abbreviation or tittle
            {_on}              on-tittle: tittle or tilde over on or ou, often abbrev. ion or ioun
            {_o}               o-tittle: tittle over o, sometimes indicating omitted i, y, n, or m
            {_u}               u-tittle: tittle or tilde over u, indicating omitted m or n
            {_y}               y with a macron, indicating omitted n
            {c'}               c ending with a raised hook, sometimes abbreviating cer
            {d'}               d with ascending stroke hooking backwards over the letter
            {d,}               d with a descending hook, abbreviating de, or otiose
            {es}               swash e, a form for terminal es, is, or ys with looped descender 
            {g'}               g with ascending stroke hooking backwards over the letter
            {gA}              g with a curled or flourished u or a above, usually standing for gra 
            {m'}              m with final raised hook often standing for mer, mar
            {m+r+}           shortened from Master?? If so, s/b {M+r+}
            {n'}               n with final raised hook often standing for omitted er or ne
            {o+r+}            shortened from our
            {o-}               ????
            {p'}               p with a superscript hook, often standing for pre
            {p+}              p or P with cross bar through descender, standing for par or per
            {p1}              p with convex curl (frown) through descender... (par or per)
            {p2}              p with a loop made from the base-line to the left and down... (pro)
            {p3}              p with concave curl (smile) through descender... (pro)
            {p`}               p with a superscript stroke like opening quote or i, (pri)
            {q+d+}            double-letter abbreviation for quod using q and superscript d 
            {q+i+}             double-letter abbreviation for qui using q and superscript i ???
            {r'}                r with ascending stroke hooking backwards over the letter ??? 
            {t'}                t with a superscript hook, standing often for ter
            {t+e+}             ???
            {t+r+}             superscript 'r' following a 't' indicates an omitted 'er' or 'ur'
            {tA}               t with a curled or flourished a, or serrated line above... (tra)
            {t}                ???
            {u'}               u with a superscript hook, standing often for uer
            {u_}              ??? Error for u-tittle (_u)???
            {v'}               v with a superscript hook, standing often for ver
            {w+c+}             ???  
            {w+r+}             ???
            {w+t+}             two-letter abbreviation for with; w and superscript t
            {{s}8}              long-s with double curl made through descender... (ser, sir, sur, syr
            {{th}'}            ??? thorn with ascending stroke hooking backwards over the letter
            {{th}+e+}          two-letter abbreviation for the using thorn and superscript e
            {{th}+ei+}         ???
            {{th}+en+}         ???
            {{th}+er+}         ???
            {{th}+is+}         triple-letter abbreviation for this using y and superscript is
            {{th}+re+}         ???
            {{th}+t+}          single-letter abbreviation for that using thorn
            {{th}+u+}          ???
            {{th}+us+}         ???
            {}