Med. Man. desc. workgroup

[Fotis Jannidis]

Merrilee,

you understood me right: I am talking about how particular lines of texts are positioned on the page. It does look like an extension of transcription issues to me too. 
Probably some additional attributes which allow to define the extension of a rectangular, its orientation and the script would be a good starting point. 
In Germany there is a trend in high prestige editions and in experimental ones (Kafka, Hölderlin, Goethe etc) to offer a facsimile of the original manuscript page and a 
diplomatic transcription which tries to render the text in a legible format but also reproduces the layout of the page. Some of these editions are going digital now and they 
are looking for formats. As I am also involved in one of these projects I am thinking about how to extend TEI to cover this aspects.

Fotis

Date sent:      	Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:06:42 -0700
To:             	tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu
From:           	Merrilee Proffitt <Merrilee_Proffitt at notes.rlg.org>
Subject:        	Re: Med. Man. desc. workgroup
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> Fotis,
> 
> If I'm understanding you correctly, you are right.  There is a
> "bucket" to generally describe the layout of the folios, but not to
> tie particular transcription from a given folio side to the layout for
> same.  It seems that this would be an extension of transcription
> issues.
> 
> Merrilee
> 
> At 11:10 AM 6/26/2002 +0200, Fotis Jannidis wrote:
> >After reading the documents collected on the given url I have the
> >understanding, that the scope of the proposed tags is to provide a
> >means to describe some of the physical aspects of texts and some
> >semantic aspects. I think there is still the need for a set of tags
> >to describe the physical layout of text on the page. It should be
> >possible to create a diplomatic transcription of a source with TEI -
> >better even, to create a TEI encoded texts which can also be the
> >input for an xslt stylesheet to produce a diplomatic transcription,
> >lets say in xsl:fo.
> >
> >In other words: chapter 18 of P4 still ends with a list of things to
> >do: " These guidelines particularly do not address the encoding of
> >physical description of textual witnesses: the materials of the
> >carrier, the medium of the inscribing implement, the layout of the
> >inscription upon the material, the organisation of the carrier
> >materials themselves (as quiring, collation, etc.), authorial
> >instructions or scribal markup, etc."
> >
> >The TEI Work Group on Medieval Manuscript has started to deal with
> >some of them and imho there is a need to deal also with "the layout
> >of the inscription upon the material". As far as I could see on the
> >TEI website no workgroup is handling this at the moment. If this is
> >correct I want to propose to establish such a workgroup.
> >
> >Fotis
> >
> >
> >
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> >Deutsche Philologie - LMU Muenchen
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