Updating of the Fantastique and Purgatoire:
Posted by lauren on 20 Nov 2009 in Academic
I just finished my touch-up the Fantastique and Purgatoire texts. Mainly, my job was just to include all of CC's footnotes, but I made some other (very minor) formatting changes, going from the updated Word documents of the two texts she sent in October. First off, concerning the Fantastique:
- I added the
<figDesc>that CC had on her transcription of the title page. - I added in the "S. l. n. d. In-8." that came below the title, but I wasn't sure how to mark it up (because I don't exactly know 100% what it is!!), so I put it for now as a
<!--->. - In note 4, there is some italicized text, but I'm not sure why it's italicized -- I used
<soCalled>and<mentioned>tags where I deemed it appropriate given the context, but I'm still not 100% sure. I also forget at the moment if these produce guillemets or if they make the text italic in the way that the<foreign>tag has been programmed to in the schema. I will do a search in the site and hopefully I'll get some answers. If<soCalled>and<mentioned>tags DO produce guillemets, how should I mark up these italicized words? (I think this is a question for MH). - I also changed the page number format according to current practice (MH and I discussed this a few weeks ago). There were no
<fw type="pageNum">tags -- instead, only<pb n="(x)">tags, which MH explained were problematic in that the "actual" page numbers can be a bit of a grey area, so we've been marking simply<pb/>to signify a page break and then the page number itself is a part of<fw>(formworks). So I changed this in the Fantastique.
And as for the Purgatoire...
- I added in CC's
<figDesc>, as for the Fantastique. - I also changed the
<pb n="(x)">to the combination of<pb/>and<fw type="pageNum" place="top-(left or right)" rend="float: (left or right)">. - I added in the docDate in roman numerals, as shown on CC's recent transcription, but there's also this "In-8" after it and once again, I ended up using
<!--->because I'm not sure what it is! - QUESTION: If there's a note within one of these works that's attributing information to a source, e.g. Virgil's Aeneid, would I mark this up as a
<title level="m">since it involves bibliographical information? This is what I have done in the Purgatoire. - Once again, I'm not sure if the
<mentioned>and<slCalled>tags I'm using are appropriate. MH, I think I might need you to check this in both texts. - I also italicized the bibliographical attributions that were within the text itself (e.g. the anonymous author puts books by Saint Basil in brackets after certain things he/she says) -- I marked these up also as
<title level="m">because I consider them to be bibliographical information again. - This becomes a problem, potentially, when it comes to books from the Bible italicized in the mark-up, as the author italicizes them in the text (according to CC's transcription). MH, I remember our conversation about not italicizing books from the Bible in regular circumstances, but I marked these up as
<title level="m">s as well due to their italicization in the transcription.
... thoughts? suggestions?