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