Wendat ProjectSchema and guidelines for encoding lexical data

Wendat Project

Schema and guidelines for encoding lexical data

Martin Holmes

2019–2024

Table of contents

1. The Wendat Project Schema and Guidelines for Encoding
- 1.1. Editing cheat sheet
2. Introduction to XML
3. Using the Subversion Repository
- 3.1. Installing a Subversion client
  - 3.1.1. Windows
  - 3.1.2. Macintosh
  - 3.1.3. Linux
- 3.2. Checking out the repository for the first time
- 3.3. Using SVN in your daily work
- 3.4. Tips for using the terminal
4. Installing Oxygen
5. Working with Oxygen to encode manuscripts
- 5.1. Oxygen code templates for manuscripts: inserting unusual characters
6. Basic principles for transcription and encoding of manuscripts
- 6.1. What we transcribe and what we ignore
- 6.2. Basic document structure for manuscripts
- 6.3. Dictionary entries in manuscripts
  - 6.3.1. Wendat text: form elements
    - 6.3.1.1. Names inside forms
  - 6.3.2. Latin text
  - 6.3.3. French text
- 6.4. Language codes for manuscripts
- 6.5. Unclear text, deletions and inline style in manuscripts
- 6.6. More complex insertions, deletions and corrections in manuscripts
- 6.7. Lists, tables and complex layouts in manuscripts
7. Document ids and other identifiers
- 7.1. Initial assignment of ids
  - 7.1.1. Transcribed manuscripts
  - 7.1.2. Subsequent modification of mnuscript ids
8. Choices / alternate elements
9. Personal, place and other names
10. Interesting things
11. Characters used in transcription
- 11.1. Wendat
12. Characters not used in Wendat
13. Notes on paleography
14. Editorial annotations
15. Lists
16. Different scribal hands
17. Notes on currency and denominations
- 17.1. Livres, sous and deniers
18. Common Wendat Particles
19. Abbreviations and unclear text
20. Notes on Jesuit conjugations
21. Working with Oxygen to encode cognates
- 21.1. Oxygen code templates for cognates: inserting unusual characters

11. Characters used in transcription

A range of different special characters are used in transcribing the Wendat, French and Latin text in the source documents. This is a breakdown of those characters; see the Oxygen code templates section for information on how to type them in Oxygen.

11.1. Wendat

Character	Unicode codepoint	Description
χ	U+03C7	Greek chi symbol
ɩ	U+0269	Latin iota symbol
θ	U+03B8	Greek theta symbol
ȣ	U+0223	Latin small letter ou. Sometimes written as digit 8.
ˌ	U+02CC	Modifier letter low vertical line; probably used for glottal stop.
ʃ	U+0283	Latin small letter esh. It is not yet clear whether this really appears, or what we are seeing is an italic variant of the long s character. More investigation needed.
ï	U+00EF	Latin small letter i with diaeresis.
n̈	n with U+0308	Latin small letter n with combining diaeresis.
ü	U+00FC	Latin small letter u with diaeresis.
̈	U+0308	Combining diaeresis or umlaut. It's not yet clear what range of characters this may appear with; where precomposed variants exist, these should definitely be used, as above. If precomposed characters exist for all instances, the combining diacritic should not be needed.
̍	U+030D	Combining vertical line above. It's not yet clear which characters this appears with, although pre-composed variants don't appear to be available. It also appears on its own, for which it needs a shortcut combining it with a space.
ʿ	U+02BF	Modifier letter half ring. This is the character to use following a vowel (a, e, i, o, or u), in preference to a combining half-ring above, even if the half-ring appears to be above the vowel. This is a normalization form for the project.
n̄	n + U+0304	n with combining macron above (no precomposed variant available). This also appears as two ns with a line above, but these are probably best transcribed as two instances of this combination. It's not clear yet whether the macron also appears above other characters.
é	U+00E9	Latin small letter E with acute accent. Also used in French.

Martin Holmes. Date: 2024-01-09