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September 14, 2009

Sonnet 1621 reference work

Posted by on 14 Sep 2009 in Academic

1) Made all medical allusions to do with "les humeurs" (colerique, flegmatique, melancolique, ſanguine) in sonnet 1621 to lead to the same definition by tagging each with: 

<ref type="reference" target="references.xml#humeur"></ref>

One question I have about quoting the Furtière definition I found (at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k50614b.image.f1048.pagination) is what should I do when I want to omit an entire paragraph? I omitted a paragraph that was situated between the two paragraphs you see in the quote below and I wasn't sure if I should have included an ellipsis to indicate this. I'll run this by CC to see what she thinks.

<div xml:id="humeur"><head>Humeur</head><p><quote>En termes de Medecine , on appelle les quatre <hi rend="font-style:italic">humeurs</hi> , les quatre ſubſtances liquides qui abreuvent tous les corps des animaux , & qu'on croit eſtre cauſes des divers temperamments , qui ſont le flegme ou la pituite, le ſang, la bile, la melancolie.  Il y en a de compoſées qui s'eſpaiſſiſſent & qui ſe corrompent , comme celles qui font le pus, les glaires , & autres qui cauſent les abſés, les obſtructions, & generalement toutes les maladies.  On les appelle de divers noms, <hi rend="font-style: italic">malignes , aduſtes , acres , mordicantes , cruës , peccantes,</hi> &c.</quote></p>

<p><quote><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.2em">Humeur</hi> , ſe dit auſſi du temperamment particulier qui vient du meſlange de ces qualitez.  Ainſi on dit , qu'un homme est d'<hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> bilieuſe, colerique, emportée; d'<hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> flegmatique, douce , poſée , froide ; d'<hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> ; ſociable , grave ; d'<hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> melancolique, chagrine , inquiete,  triſte, noire, ſombre, bizarre, inſupportable , hypocondriaque ; d'<hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> ſanguine , gaye , enjoüée , complaiſante , volage , amoureuſe ; de belle <hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> ; d'<hi rend="font-style: italic">humeur</hi> jovale , imperieuſe.</quote></p> <listBibl><bibl>Furetière, Antoine. « Humeur », <hi rend= "font-style: italic">Dictionnaire universel</hi> (1690), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Internet, 9 settembre 2009.</bibl>

2) Removed all 

<bibl>Second sample bibliographical entry.</bibl>

in my references as requested by MH.

3) Added "Spermatique" to the list of medical allusions.

September 11, 2009

Candale

Posted by on 11 Sep 2009 in Academic

And I am officially done with Candale - it should now be 100% proofed and all we'll need are references!

September 9, 2009

Candale - September updates

Posted by on 09 Sep 2009 in Academic

So finally, I think the Candale should be ready to post, if not tomorrow afternoon, then Friday. After this, I plan on writing the references for the Candale that I can find (some were pretty obscure, so I'll send these on to EJC).

I talked to CC and she said that her commentaries can wait to be posted on the site and that it's not a problem if I focus for the next few weeks on proofing the Isembourg and the Varin (Varin should not be too much proofing but there are a few uncited authors that I'd like to try and find the names for as well as a few formatting things).

After this, I will either start work on the Agremens or on CC's commentaries, depending on what she would like. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

August 28, 2009

engravings: modernization and correction

Posted by on 28 Aug 2009 in Academic
As I prepare to depart for France, the engravings are in better shape. I've mdoernized all of the transcriptions of text, and corrected the numerous little errors appearing throughout. Onward and upward...
August 26, 2009

Fixed a sorting bug on the TOC page

Posted by on 26 Aug 2009 in Activity log

When items were sorted by "type" on the TOC page, within each type they were in random order (or rather, apparently so; they were actually in db order). I've now added a second <xsl:sort> element in these cases, to sort the components of each type in title order.

Bibliography markup

Posted by on 26 Aug 2009 in Activity log, Academic

We're using a <listBibl> containing <biblStructs>. Each <biblStruct> has three attributes:

  1. xml:id="chartier_2005": the unique id of this item, based on the author(s) or editor(s) surname(s) and the publication year. Where there are multiple people, separate each surname with an underscore.
  2. type="book": the primary type of the reference, which will govern the rendering process. I'll list these values as they crop up, in this document; I'll adhere to the list I've already got for teiJournal wherever possible.
  3. subtype="collective": an additional classification, following the main section headings of the bibliography as it is currently organized. This may prove overkill (see below).

All biblio items will be stored in the main file, and simply referenced from elsewhere, and smaller, subject-specific versions of the main bibliography can be created by creating a framework file referencing items in the main file. This approach may be the best way to create the section-divided biblio rendering in CC's biblio, which I'm currently marking up (which would make the third attribute above irrelevant).

biblStruct/@type values:

  • book (simple monogr-level book)
  • series_volume (volume in a series which is cited by the series name, rather than the volume editor, volume title, or series editors).
  • ...more to come...

Articles and bibliographical markup

Posted by on 26 Aug 2009 in Activity log

My initial intent with the editorial articles (two of which are ready to go up on the site) was to encode them in XHTML, for a quick and simple display. However, several factors make this a bad choice: first, they include links to documents in the collection, and to locations in those documents; second, they include bibliographical references that need to be solidly encoded; and third, some of those references are from the main bibliography listing, and would best be marked up once, centrally, and xincluded or imported into the articles at render time. Finally, it seems to me that it would be a good idea to make the articles searchable along with the rest of the collection.

So we've made the decision to mark up the bibliography and the articles in P5, using practices largely drawn from the teiJournal project (and re-purposing some rendering code from teiJournal too). The best place to start, as always, is the bibliography, and the logical thing to do is to centralize all bibliographical references in a single file, carefully encoded, and then we can present the complete list easily as well, as a separate document. Accordingly, I've started work on the list (which currently runs to about 5 pages), and I'll record my progress, along with any significant decisions I make with regard to biblio markup, in the next post I make.

August 25, 2009

Postscript on pre-1630 texts

Posted by on 25 Aug 2009 in Academic
There is inconsistency in the way notes are presented in these texts, and the inconsistences will be greater when compared with the longer texts subject to the reference file created by the RAs. This should be fairly easy to iron out in the coming weeks...

Modernization of pre-1630 short texts

Posted by on 25 Aug 2009 in Academic

I've finished the modernization of the pre-1630 shorter, "non-humanist" texts, and will hand them over to Martin tomorrow. I found the process useful for proofreading the original encoding, and found errors on "Sermon pour les cocus"(pp. 21-24 inserted early in the text, repeated in the correct spot at the end), and "Response des servantes" (page breaks 106, 107 and 108 not encoded).

Later in the fall, I can go through the same process with the longer texts (Varin, Complainte, Cholières, Sonnet).