3.386 old spelling and coding, cont. (77)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 23 Aug 89 21:34:08 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 386. Wednesday, 23 Aug 1989.


(1) Date: Tuesday, 22 August 1989 2207-EST (35 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: full, flexible and compatible coding

(2) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 08:25:03 EDT (22 lines)
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: electronic ms. markup

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Date: Tuesday, 22 August 1989 2207-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: full, flexible and compatible coding

Thanks to Steve DeRose and Robin Cover for helping to
clarify the range of issues related to the not-so-simple
query about "modernized spellings" (etc.). My not-so-secret
fear is that insufficient attention will be given to these sorts of
issues in the the text encoding initiative discussions, and
that the available experience of projects such as TLG and
the Duke Papyri DataBank and the various ancient inscriptions
projects (e.g. Cornell, Princeton Institute) will not be
exploited adequately. My hope is that a sufficiently
comprehensive set of coding recommendations can be developed
as early as possible, from which compatible subsets can be
generated for the less complex situations. Yes, a "hypertextual"
approach is the obvious way to get at all these varieties of
wealth, but the links that make hypertext work will serve us
best if they are as comprehensive and compatible as possible.

My problem is only partly theoretical. We are working to
complete the encoding of the massive textual variant corpus
for the Old Greek Jewish Scriptural materials ("Septuagint).
>From this corpus, a wide range of different combinations of
textual information will be possible (including some "modernization"
of spellings in antiquity! probably also "archaizing"). We have
developed a format that seems adequate for our needs at the
moment, but if there is a better (more comprehensive, flexible,
etc.) format on the horizon, we would be happy to test and use
it, in the interests of greater utility/compatibility. What we
don't want to be is out of step in CONCEPT (the details are
more simple to adjust) with whatever might develop, if there is
any way to avoid that.

Bob Kraft, CCAT and CATSS (Comp.Asst.Tools for Septuagint Studies)
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 08:25:03 EDT
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: electronic ms. markup

Logging onto OCLC the other day (18 August) I received a message
regarding some publications available from OCLC which HUMANISTs
might be interested in.

_Standard for electronic manuscript preparation and markup_
_Author's guide_
_Reference manual_
_Markup of mathematical formulas_
_Markup of tabular material_

Published by EPSIG (Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group) at
OCLC and approved as ANSI/NISO standard Z39.59-1988.

For more information or to order:
call Lillian Moon 1-800-848-5878 (in Ohio 1-800-848-8286) ext. 6195.

Matthew Gilmore
LIBRSPE@GWUVM