Mariage

I'm replying to queries about other texts by email, but I wanted to leave a record here about my discoveries concerning the poems in the Cabinet satyrique.

At last, I've located the best bibliographical info about the various editions. One superb 1924 bibliography we have in the UVic library, so we should be able to improve some of the existing metadata when I'm back in Victoria. My main discovery is that the 1618 editions are by far the most interesting because the ones that followed were heavily censured. So for our purposes, I'll just concentrate on transcribing from the two 1618 editions I can lay my hands on. It's not our purpose in the anthology (at this point) to compare the later editions, though I do have the variants for 1666, which could make a decent conference paper for someone because the variants are interesting.

I sent MH one 1618 version already, but I fear I may have missed some of the marriage poems in that pass through, so I will try to be more thorough in my final efforts during this trip.

Additionally, I am collecting the satirical marriage verse from several other pre-1625 anthologies (Le Parasse satyrique, Les délices satyriques, Les muses folâtres, etc. etc.). I think this fills the anthology's purpose better than working on the variants for the Cabinet satyrique (last published in 1697, to my surprise).

I have almost finished all the references for the Isembourg, which means it is pretty much a few hours from being done. I am just making a list of the ones I still have to write (which I might do in Word this weekend if I'm feeling ambitious):

1. (Longaigne) -- I asked CC and EJC about this one because it was not in the Petit Robert nor in the dictionnaires du 17e.
2. Dailon du Lude
3. Schonberg (likely not the 20th century century serialist composer, I'm guessing... ;))
4. Aubijoux
5. Vardes
6. Bade
7. Arras (as in Moniot d'Arras!!!)
8. Simey
9. Archot

On a roll today. In an effort to demonstrate that something was wrong with the XQuery generator, I created a really simple project in a test Cocoon, and found that the <exist:match> tags were coming back exactly as expected. That meant there was something particular that I was doing in my Mariage find.xq file which must be resulting in the loss of the tags. After much hacking around, I found a solution -- although I still don't understand why it works. First of all, I had to make sure I was adding the exist namespace to the <teiCorpus> element in which I was returning the results; I hadn't been doing that, which meant that the match tags had an unbound prefix. Second, and most important, I had to rewrite the actual file so that I constructed the output document in a slightly different way. I had been generating it using a lot of embedded functions, with local variables containing (for instance) search results, then querying that local document in order to get its contents and drop them into the return document. This worked, and the search is now functional on my local test copy of Mariage.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused the problem is that during the process of constructing the document in memory, and then querying it, elements in the exist namespace were somehow lost. In any case, I now have a solution, and we can think about deploying it first thing Monday. I can chop down that Cocoon in the same way I chopped down the latest one, and just push it up either into the main Tomcat or into the dev one. Greg and I can decide on Monday.

Unfortunately, porting the fix back to the old (mariage_3) project didn't help; still getting no search results there. All the more reason to rush out a new deployment.

Next I'm going to try extracting ScanCan in the same manner, and see if that works as advertised...

...from a stack of things, from discussions about how to handle the embedded narrative in the Agre'emens, to fixing validation issues in the Cholière, to scripting some of the build-and-test processes for new Cocoon/eXist builds, to getting the server restarted multiple times...

Just realized: I double-checked the Complaintes yesterday because it had been ages since I looked at them, and some of the reference names had since changed, as had the reference file -- I had many ref type="reference" target="complaintes_references.xml#... tags that had since become incorporated into the large reference.xml file. So I changed those over to ref type="reference" target="references.xml#....

Another thing: at times Le Perdu cites directly parts of books of the Bible, and CC had originally transcribed these as simple guillemets -- I'm assuming I should change these over into cit quote tags?

The Agrémens (both) texts now have been proofed, marked-up fully in XML and are complete with references, so MH, if you would like to put them up on the site, this can finally happen! I still have a few questions, however:

1. First, on page 1, there is a scribbled letter (signature? initials?) next to the sig at the bottom of the page: is there a way for me to encode this?
2. On pages 96, 108 and 132, the PHILOGAME and HISTOIRE words are supposed to be catchwords, but because there are figDescs and the head tag starts before this, I can't put an fw after. Should I leave them as is or do you have any suggestions for how to get around this?
3. In order to NOT get paragraphs to indent, do I write p rend="text-indent: 0em;", or is there an easier way? (This is on p. 1, p. 42, p. 109 and p. 133 of Tomes 5 and 6.)
4. Finally, when a character within the story is telling a story, should I put one big "said" tag around it, or would a div type="mmeDeSelinyHistoire" work just as well?
5. MH, I also have serious questions involving what constitues a paragraph within the text and what I should just be marking up with lb/s. When you're free, I'd like to talk to you about it because I think that it affects more than just my Agremens text.

... I think all of these questions are for MH since they involve formatting.

Cheers, everyone!

WM reported that the indexing bug has now been fixed, so I checked out and rebuilt eXist. I have a local deployment working, and I've started rationalizing the database structure a little. Everything seems to work well, except that the search functionality that inserts <exist:match> tags STILL seems to be broken. After posting on the list about this a couple of weeks ago, I've had no response, so I conclude that it's not a priority. I'm going to have to find an alternative, and since I have my own Java library that was written for the teiJournal project, that does a lot of this work, and does a decent job of it, so I might try using that instead. I spent quite a while getting the index configuration set up, and I presume the actual indexing is working, but match-tagging isn't.

I spent this morning checking the references in the Varin to make sure that they showed up. I found a lot of mistakes (simply because the xml:id spelling had changed for many of them), but I was able to correct most of these myself. However, there are still some problems that need fixing as well as some questions I have:

• The notes 1 and 2 that appear at the top of the title page for the Varin contain information that is written inside the cover onto the page. I feel like these should actually not be notes -- how should I encode them? It's basically just written information for the library that appears at the bottom of the title page.
• In the description of the image on the front of the title page, I also realized that I used English quotation marks around the Latin phrases. I am thinking I should change these to foreign xml:lang="la" tags ... MH? Is this the way to go?

Things needing fixing:

1. MH, on pages 14-15 and lower down on 15-16, as well as page 52, ALL of the text is underlined as if it were a reference, and when I click on things that should be references within the underlined paragraph, nothing is coming up. I have checked my XML in all three places and it looks correct.
2. In note 12 in the Varin, when I click on the Lucain reference, not only does the Lucain reference come up, but possibly all the other references in a file (you can perpetually scroll down and read about a whole bunch of other people in the references.xml file within the "Lucain" pop-up window).
3. In the pop-up windows, my links to websites for "Deiphobus" (p. 23 of Varin), "Belus" (p. 30), "Zenon" (p. 70), "Getulie" -- not the Wikipedia link but the Imago Mundi one -- (p. 72) don't work.
4. Additionally, for the "Neptune" reference (p. 153 of Varin), I included a ref type="reference" target="references.xml#poseidon link embedded within the p tags of the reference itself, because Poseidon has a longer definition in the reference file. However, this link, too, does not seem to be working.

I would also like to thank CC for her feedback yesterday -- I still need to work through my paragraph separations in the Varin text, as well as many more formatting things. I could spend years on this text!

Extended my bash script for pulling down the in-progress markup documents so that it integrates those which are already being shown on the site into the site tree correctly; this allows me to update the site more easily. Also added handling for the <mentioned> tag, which should now result in guillemets (per instructions from CC).

Today I went to the "Service de reproduction" at the Bnf Richelieu site to ask about our missing 12 engravings. The woman I talked with was very helpful, and confirmed my fear that the last email I received in July would lead nowhere, and I that I was correct to come to the Richelieu site in person. I have been given the email and phone number of the specialist in that office, who promises to follow up this time. He repeated what I knew, that the problem was a lost microfilm, so he is going to ask permission to do new photographs himself of each original engraving. The Cabinet des Estampes has lots of these photos or "clichés" but even more images reproduced on microfilm. I think the quality of the digitization is better from the photos, so this is all good news. Permission may be refused for the ones in the "Réserve," however, but at least the situation will be resolved one way or another (though I'm more likely to get a refund if I turn up in person again!).

As for texts, although the stuff I've collected can't be dealt with until I return, I want to keep a log here of what I've sent and plan to send as I move through the last weeks in Paris.

I’m about a quarter of the way through transcribing Parts 7 and 8 of Les agréemens et les chagrins du mariage.

Next week, I hope get a third set of variants for the Cabinet satyrique. I have noted the 1666 changes, and I’ll add 1694 and perhaps even a different 1618 edition.

After that, I'd like to check out some of the 16th-century "popular" (as opposed to humanist or erudite) marriage polemics I've come across to make sure that they are largely from Medieval antecedants as I have supposed.

Then maybe "L'épouse fugitive" that I've dreamed of having for years!