We're now working out of a subversion repository instead of editing XML directly in home1t; this is basically essential since we have five or more people editing files in the same collection. I've set up LSPW and EGB on their editing machines with subversion and instructions, and all seems to be going well. I've also set up Radish so that it's ready for GBS when she comes in on Monday. I haven't yet set up the Mac for LCC.
January 27, 2011
January 26, 2011
Some texts (such as Varin) have quotes in them which are not signalled with quote marks; it's only clear they're quotes because of the surrounding text. These are being tagged with <quote type="noMarks">, which I've added to the schema alongside @type="italics", and added a handler to the XSLT.
The two latest texts have long and detailed tables of contents which need to be encoded. This is the recommended approach, which I've based on the Brown Women Writers Project guidelines, but which use examples from our own texts.
- The TOC as a whole is encoded as
<div type="contents">. - The main heading for the whole TOC is encoded as a
<head>element. - The TOC may then be divided into several sections (as in Le Bon Mariage), or it may be a single section (as in the case of the Ville-Thierry text). Each section should be encoded as a
<list type="toc">. - If a section of the table has its own subheader (as in the case of Le Bon Mariage), this should be included in a
<head>tag inside the<list>tag. - Each item in the TOC will be an
<item>element inside the<list>element. - Each item may contain three elements:
<label>(containing a label such as "Chap. XXXII" in the Ville-Thierry, if there is one).<rs>("referring string"), which contains the chapter title, heading or description.<ref type="pageNum">, containing the page number. This will have two other attributes:target="p_1"(which points, in this example, to page 1 of the text). It is important that you later ensure that an element with the xml:id "p_1" exists in the document; normally this would be the<fw type="pageNum">1</fw>-- in other words, the<fw>tag which contains the page number "1".rend="float:right". This designates that the page number appears on the right of the page, which is normally the case.
Here are some example encodings. This is from Le Bon Mariage:
<div type="contents"> <head> <figure><figDesc>Motif décoratif</figDesc></figure> <hi>TABLE</hi><lb/> <hi>DES CHAPITRES</hi><lb/> <hi>CONTENVS EN CE LIVRE</hi><lb/> </head> <list type="toc"> <head> <figure><figDesc>Ligne droite ray/e</figDesc></figure> <hi>LIVRE PREMIER.</hi><lb/> <hi>TRAITE PREMIER.</hi><lb/> <hi>De l'excellence & des fins du Mariage</hi><lb/> </head> <item> <rs>Des trois diverſes eſtats qui ſe retrouuent en l'Egliſe, page </rs> <ref type="pagenum" target="#p_1" rend="float: right;">1</ref> </item> <item> <rs>Combien le mariage eſt honorable. </rs> <ref type="pagenum" target="#p_6" rend="float: right;">6</ref> </item> <item> <rs>Qu'au mariage & en toutes autres actions ſe ſaut propoſer vne bonne fin.</rs> <ref type="pagenum" target="#p_10" rend="float: right;">10</ref> </item> </list> </div>
This example comes from the Ville-Thierry:
<div type="contents"> <head> <figure> <figDesc>Motif décoratif</figDesc> </figure> <hi>TABLE</hi><lb/> <hi>DES CHAPITRES.</hi><lb/> <figure><figDesc>Ligne droite foncée</figDesc></figure> <hi>CHAPITRE PREMIER.</hi><lb/></head> <list type="toc"> <item> <rs>De la grandeur & de l'excellence du Mariage. pag.</rs> <ref target="#p_1">1</ref> </item> <item> <label>Chap. II.</label> <rs>Qu'il n'y a rien de plus mal- heureux que l'état de ceux qui entrent mal dans le Mariage , & qui ne s'y con- duisent pas par les regles de la charité & de la pieté chrétienne.</rs> <ref target="#p_19">19</ref> </item> <item> <label>Chap. III.</label> <rs>Quelles sont les fins que les Chrétiens doivent se proposer , lorsqu'ils s'engagent dans le Mariage.</rs> <ref target="#p_26">26</ref></item> </list> </div>
January 25, 2011
As asked by CC, I have begun to work on the Espines du Mariage text by Varin, which will involve the following:
1) proofreading transcribed text
2) tweaking formatting of text where needed
3) proofreading, writing, and linking references
4) writing notes
5) making list of all Greek texts that appear so that they can be sent to Greek Masters student for transcription/proofreading
January 24, 2011
In both the original texts of Bon Mariage and Ville Thierry, the table of contents appears in such a way that the chapter headings/descriptions are aligned to the left while the page numbers on which the chapters begin are aligned to the right. Because of this complex formatting, we cannot simply encode the table of contents as a list as we normally do. I discussed this with MH and he will reflect on how to deal with those texts.
January 20, 2011
There were some oddities in the display of references linked from inside references -- see my prior post for details. I've now fixed those. The problems arose because:
- When a reference was linked from inside another reference, it wasn't necessarily already in the page, because only references linked directly from the text are pulled into the document initially. That meant it had to be retrieved by AJAX.
- When it was retrieved by AJAX, it was a fragment rather than a full document; that meant that a lot of the context which was used by XSL matching templates was absent, so a lot of the styling was not applied.
- When the reference was retrieved, it was supposed to be added to the list of existing references. However, it replaced them instead, meaning that all subsequent reference links had to retrieve their references anew -- and they then inherited the style problems described above.
I've now fixed this so that the transformation XSL is more sensitive to fragments (it uses a formula local-name(/*) ne 'TEI' to identify a fragment, which is typically rooted on <div> rather than <TEI>). I've also tweaked the AJAX code so that it can append to the content of the target element as well as replace it, using a switch called clearTargetFirst.
While working with EGB on encoding Le Bon Mariage, we found that superscripts "a", "b", "c" and "d" appeared within the body of the text of the dedication. These letters correspond to notes "a" to "d" that appear in the margin. MH suggested that I enclose the notes in note tags and that he write a new handler for those particular notes so that they will be numbered by letter. We also enclosed all superscript letters in the text in a comment tag and explained that they corresponded with the marginal notes.
I have finished proofreading the Forest Nuptiale. All references, linguistic notes and arguments for the text have also been added.
Currently, I'm working on inputting and formatting the Greek transcriptions that hadn't been added in the Sonnet 1609.
Will be teaching new RA XML encoding this morning/afternoon.
January 19, 2011
CC sent the last of the metadata, plus a transcription. It's now up on the site, but it will be annotated further by CC.
January 18, 2011
A bug has emerged in the handling of references which reference other references. This is how to reproduce it:
- Go to the Forest Nuptiale.
- Search for Braga, and click on the reference link.
- Inside that reference link, click on the link to Concile de Trente.
- Click on any other reference link in the document.
When the embedded Trente reference is shown, it's unformatted (paragraphs and links are missing). Thereafter, formatting is missing from any reference which shows up in the box. No idea why this is happening (yet), but we never predicted there would be references which are only linked from inside other references.