Mariage

EDIT: SEE COMMENTS BY MH BELOW.

Working on the varin.xml, I discovered a problem when trying to use <cit type="blockquote"><quote type="noMarks">. Although the document validated, it caused an error when trying to view the XSLT. The error was related to XML lines 3218 to 3226 (/TEI/text[1]/body[1]/div[35]/p[4]/cit[1]/quote[1]). I tried to fix the error by changing <cit type="blockquote" rend="margin: 0"><quote type="noMarks"><foreign xml:lang="la"> to simply <cit type="blockquote"><quote><foreign xml:lang="la">, however, this displayed "guillemets" around the quoted text. I ended up having to use <cit type="blockquote" rend="margin: 0"><quote type="italics"><foreign xml:lang="la"> to fix the error and make the text display properly without "guillemets" and only in italics.

MH will probably need to do some more tweaking of block quote handlers.

Investigation by MH

I think this issue arises out of a basic misunderstanding. The handling for blockquotes depends on <cit type="block">, NOT type="blockquote". If you use <cit type="block">, then no quotes (guillemets) will be applied anyway; by default, blockquotes do not have quotation marks. In fact, the @type attribute on the <quote> element is ignored in the case of <cit type="block">.

So if the objective is to have an italicized blockquote, with the italicization due to its being in a foreign language, you can do this:

<cit type="block" rend="margin: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><quote><foreign xml:lang="la">
    I’ay pour le dot beaucoup d’argent receu,<lb/>
    Et mon pouuoir ce faiſant i’ay vendu.</foreign></quote></cit>

There are 24 instances of the erroneous cit type="blockquote" in the following documents: forest_nuptiale, sonnet_1609, and varin. There are 14 instances of the correct formulation, <cit type="block">, which occur in sonnet_1609 and varin. I think we need to look at all the erroneous ones and fix them, making any other adjustments required to make them display properly.

We want A through Z links at the top of the Index page, and anchors at the beginning of each letter segment in the page. This would be useful because searching is hard due to spelling anomalies.

I found a way to automate the addition of @xml:id attributes where these are required because of linking from the TOC, so that's been done in Le Bon Mariage, Le Blanc and Ville-Thierry.

Started working on rendering of TOC code, as described here. These are the changes I've made:

• I made substantial edits to Le Bon Mariage, Ville-Thierry and Le Blanc to fix minor inconsistencies and missing attributes.
• I added a special handler for <ref type="pageNum"> which processes a TOC page number into a link to the <fw> containing that page number. Note, though, that none of the <fw> tags in question actually has an @xml:id attribute yet, with the exception of one that I added to Le Bon Mariage for testing. I'll probably try to automate the addition of those attributes.
• I added an appropriate CSS ruleset for the page numbers.

Basically everything seems to be working, although the page width of the Ville-Thierry is still wrong; I need to work on that a little. But someone else will take over the markup of that document at some point, so it could be left to them.

Made the following changes to some site content based on advice from the French team:

• "Allusions/Notes" is now simply "Index".
• The default style is "Pelouse".
• Superscripts in editorial introductions have been reconfigured using CSS so that they no longer have any impact on line-spacing. "vertical-align: superscript;" was replaced with "position: relative; bottom: 0.8ex;". I have not made this change in any anthology documents, although we may do that if it proves worthwhile. There are 31 instances of the use of "vertical-align: superscript" in the text_original collection.
• Mentions of genres on the home page have been linked to their respective TOC pages.

Other changes are pending after some discussion.

LSPW reported that an entry in the references file was missing (Chypre). We checked back through SVN, and confirmed that it had never been present during the time we've been using SVN, but I found an old version of the references file from Mariage version 4, and we retrieved it from there.

Meanwhile, there were conflicts with the le_bon_mariage.xml file, arising I think when EGB forgot to do an svn update before starting work, after I had edited the file on the 14th. I think I've resolved these, but we'll know for sure tomorrow when she comes in and does an update.

My previous changes caused a change to the way paragraphs were displayed in the popup references. I've now refined the XSLT a little so that paragraphs in references no longer get the host document's default paragraph styles added to them (as they shouldn't, because they're editorial content and should be consistent across the collection, rather than varying with the style of their host documents).

Fixed some bugs in CSS and XSLT shown up by Le Bon Mariage:

• Unordered lists had no default text-align, so they were inheriting it from (eg) a parent text front div, meaning they'd end up centred. It's almost always the case that they should be left-aligned, so I made that the default in the CSS.
• Some text paragraphs (those with no @rend attribute) were failing to inherit the default paragraph style from the <teiHeader>; this turned out to be a bug in the XSLT, which I fixed.
• Marginal (authorial) notes (<note type="marginal">) were being treated as editorial notes, and turned into buttons with popups, so I suppressed that (and see below).

Also added handling for the marginal notes, grouping them in with the arguments, because that's the way to handle them IMHO; in some cases too, judging by EGB's markup, it's hard to tell the difference between them. So the argument markup now handles editorial marginal notes.

In the process, I fixed a few typos in the Bon Mariage XML file too.

Note to self: TOCs are still not being handled at all. That's a must-do sometime soon.

Added in the new members of the team and more details about tasks, on CC's instructions.