Hi Emma,
I guess that something similar is necessary if one wants to statistically analyze the text. In particular, the obvious digraphs (e.g. ch) should be mapped into a single character. Of course, there are several ways of doing this and I don't know how to choose the optimal one (I think that someone suggested on the forum that maximizing entropy could be a possible criterion).
Anyway, what you are proposing here is something different. The term "meta" seems to suggest that you mean it as terminology to exchange ideas rather than substitutions for data processing. If, so the extended descriptions you propose seem clear and functional to me.
"any sequence ending [n] with any number of [i]" is something I can understand
On the other hand, there are transcriptions that use N for in and M for iin, so I am afraid I might be confused by [N].
I guess that something similar is necessary if one wants to statistically analyze the text. In particular, the obvious digraphs (e.g. ch) should be mapped into a single character. Of course, there are several ways of doing this and I don't know how to choose the optimal one (I think that someone suggested on the forum that maximizing entropy could be a possible criterion).
Anyway, what you are proposing here is something different. The term "meta" seems to suggest that you mean it as terminology to exchange ideas rather than substitutions for data processing. If, so the extended descriptions you propose seem clear and functional to me.
"any sequence ending [n] with any number of [i]" is something I can understand
On the other hand, there are transcriptions that use N for in and M for iin, so I am afraid I might be confused by [N].