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Mariage

le mariage sous l'ancien régime
July 20, 2011

Categories in table of contents

Posted by on 20 Jul 2011 in Academic

To follow up on Leanna's post about naming of categories, "Eloges du mariage" would work for the side bar. Another issue are the categories in the table of contents under "Tous les documents". We can add "éloge, vers" as the counterpoint to "satire, vers" and "satire, prose," although this makes me a little uneasy because there is a type of poem, "l'épithalame," in praise of marriage, but it applies to celebrating a particular marriage -- so I guess "éloge, vers" works, and indeed it seems like the logical choice.

Thinking about the t of c also brings to my attention the designation "roman, fiction, prose"; I don't think we need both "roman" and "fiction"; "fiction" on its own should suffice. The novel is fiction by definition.

July 14, 2011

Need to create new category for Blanchon's Stances du mariage

Posted by on 14 Jul 2011 in Activity log, Tasks, Academic

Transcription and annotation of Blanchon's Stances du mariage has been completed. The text is now published on the site, however, it appears under the category of "Satire" which is a problem because it is not a satire. CC suggests that a new category should be created, possibly "Éloges du mariage". We'll have to discuss this with MH when he returns from holiday.

July 7, 2011

Posting time...

Posted by on 07 Jul 2011 in Activity log

...spent over the last few days on moving EG-B to Spartan, timesheets, and discussing various markup issues.

Espines du Mariage complete; Blanchon's "Stances du Mariage" next

Posted by on 07 Jul 2011 in Academic

I have more or less finished annotating the Espines du mariage. I'm just waiting for CC to get back to a few of my e-mails before I can add the final changes and references. One particular interesting issue that needs to be addressed is the display of abbreviated latin characters. In the Varin text, there are 2 instances, "Vereque" (p. 120) and "Horaque" (p.139), in which the "que" ending is abbreviated by what looks like the letter "q" with an acute accent and a subscript "3". MH suggests that we should just ignore the abbreviation and transcribe the "que" ending in both words. We're running this by CC first to get her opinion on the matter.

In waiting for CC's reply, I've begun transcribing and encoding a short poem called "Stances du Mariage par antithèse à celles de Ph. Des Portes" by Joachim Blanchon. I'll also be doing the same for a few other short poems that belong to the same anthology.

Another project I plan to work on is reviewing previous texts that I have annotated (sonnet_1609.xml, sonnet_1621.xml, forest_nuptiale.xml) as I have realized, after working on the Varin text, that I failed to write notes/references that identified the source and author of all foreign citations in those texts.

July 5, 2011

Le blanc proofing tasks 07-04-2011

Posted by on 05 Jul 2011 in Academic
  1. Spacing/alignment issues:
    a. Title page: I used a “text-indent: 7em” on “& de quelques Sainctes, qui ont beaucoup” and then put a line break before the rest of the sentence, which I had assumed would be aligned with “& de quelques Sainctes” because it, too, is wrapped in the <hi rend=”text-indent: 7em”> tag, but the margin is very off.

    b.There is also a strange space between two lines of the “Avant-propos” (“Dieu vangeur & ennemi” / “des blasphemes...”, as though I had put two or three line breaks between the two lines of text.

    c. p. 554, the header “La direction …” is still left-aligned, despite my use of “text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;” after the <head>. I did the same thing for page 1 when its heading was left-aligned and it appears to have worked because on page 1, the header is now centered appropriately. I have checked the code and once again, I have no idea why there is this discrepancy.
  2. “Table des chapitres” problems for mholmes to look at:
    a. The “Table des chapitres” heading needs to be centered. Right now it’s showing up as being left-aligned, which is strange because I thought that any time a <head> tag is used, the text is automatically centered. I’ve added in some additional css (“text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;”) to see if that will fix the problem.

    b. There is also a double space between the “Chapitre (x)” <label> and the chapter description in the <rs>, and once again I’m not entirely sure why. I’m wondering if the <item><label> mark-up automatically formats the heading as being one line, so the <lb> I added after it would then act as a double-space. I’ve tested this theory by deleting the line break after “Chapitre I” of the “Livre premier”.

    c. There are lots of little text indents in the chapter descriptions where in the .pdf, the text is indented. Although I have added in what I thought were the appropriate <hi rend=”text-indent: (x)em;”> tags, the indents are not showing up on the site at the moment. I’m wondering if this has something to do with the <rs> tag that’s wrapping the descriptions...

    d. The page numbers corresponding to each chapter need to appear on the same line as the last line of the chapter description. For some reason, the “page 1” for “Chapitre 1” for the “Livre premier” is formatted correctly; that is, it is on the same line (but right-aligned) as the last line of the chapter description (“vie, & tres-agreable à Dieu”), but none of the others are. I have checked my code and I cannot find a reason for this discrepancy.

    e. The “Chapitre” headings in “Livre III” and “Livre IV” need to be left-aligned and on the same line as the chapter summary. I’m wondering if my hypothesis is correct that the <item><label> element combination automatically puts a line break before the <rs>.

    f. The text wrapped in the <list type=”toc”><head> for "Livres Deuxiesme", III and IV and the summary beneath them (i.e. “La loüange des femmes vertueuses”) is not currently showing up. While the “Chapitre premier” is showing up on the website, the summary underneath it seems to have disappeared as well, although I have coded all summaries and chapter headings the same way in the .xml.

    g. Some of the text appears to be in bold, and I cannot find a reason for this. It seems to start on the second page of the “Table des chapitres” after “Chapitre[e] 1”.
June 28, 2011

Working on text output for text analysis

Posted by on 28 Jun 2011 in Activity log

I've started work on a text-output format suitable for text-analysis work. The first stage is normalizing spacing and re-connecting hyphenated words, which I seem to have working OK, although I need to do some more testing. Next we need to look at what normalization strategies we're going to undertake, from the obvious (replacing long s) to the less obvious (such as correcting all variant spellings). I've started learning a little about Mallet, and I've run some of their sample data, but it's obvious that I'm going to have to do a lot of learning before I can make worthwhile use of it.

June 15, 2011

Quotes and cits -- need to do a review and standardize

Posted by on 15 Jun 2011 in Activity log

An issue arose today due to a collision of XSLT templates which are handling <cit> and <quote> elements. Since our practice has evolved rather than been planned, we've ended up with a complex range of different encoding strategies, involving the use of @type on both cit and quote. As it stands, everything seems to work, but we really should take a close look at the relevant templates in teiGeneral.xsl, as well as the encoding practice, so that we can at least document where and when the various strategies are being used.

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May 27, 2011

Alphabet list for references page now complete

Posted by on 27 May 2011 in Activity log

The references list is now divided into alphabetical groups by first letter, and there is a list of the letters at the top of the page which you can click on to jump to the appropriate place in the file.