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RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
-JKP- > 10-06-2017, 12:07 AM
I feel quite strongly (as mentioned in my blog), that flexibility of searching a transcript is crucial.
Putting different shapes into different font slots complicates this process even though it's more intuitively natural to construct a font-set that way. I lean away from doing it this way. There are other ways, within font sets, to express glyph variants that don't require a lot of slots and different keystrokes (and a good memory) to type all the variants.
Variations can be marked in a number of ways, so this is just an example, not necessarily the best way, but it's the easiest way to explain it.
If one suspects that there are two versions of a character, but one is not sure, then expressing them as different letters in a font table makes it necessary to set up two searches in order to catch them all when treating them as a single character. This isn't terribly difficult with grep but not everyone uses it, some use word-processor apps to search and not every app has a flexible search function.
If they are distinguished by a number, symbol or other method (in much the same way as the Z was added to the benched gallows in the Takahashi transcription), then suppose one uses y1 to represent a curved EVA-y and y2 to represent straight EVA-y, then there is no difficulty in searching them separately and together. Now, if one is doing character counts and word-length counts, one has to once again compensate for extra markers in the text, but there are a number of solutions that are possible.
I actually have three versions of my transcript because I was trying to work out some of these issues to try to find an optimum solution. In one of them, I have constructed the bench characters out of two separate glyphs, in another I used the character "n" to represent one and "ñ" to represent the one with a cap (characters like c and ç can also be constructed this way and can be alternately set up as requiring one keystroke or two). Thus, a two-step character, in the way one constructs a font that has characters with accents, is another way to approach it and, for some kinds of searches and statistical examinations, it works very well. Once you have a base transcription, creating these variants is not difficult and there will always be certain kinds of searches that work better in one system than another. -
RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
Wladimir D > 29-10-2017, 05:36 PM
On You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there is a strange combination of glyphs, which I can explain in two ways.
1 / or "i" has been corrected to the gallows "P".
2 / or the gallows foot punches through the letter "a", just as the foot of gallows punch through "bench" .
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I believe that Figures 2-4 show the same application of an apostrophe with the letter "a".
It's very strange for me transcription the word (2) to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
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RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
Anton > 29-10-2017, 11:02 PM
I don't think that 2-4 all refer to the same concept. Looks like 2 and 3 are a + r hybrid, while 4 and 5 are apostrophe in between a and i. -
RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
-JKP- > 30-10-2017, 07:12 AM
It might be a + r hybrid, but it seems to me more likely, since the apostrophe is found on many different glyphs in the VMS, that it might be a + apostrophe. In languages that used Latin scribal conventions, the apostrophe could be associated with any letter, and could be attached or not atttached based on the choice of the scribe (there was no rule that it had to be attached or unattached). -
RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
Anton > 30-10-2017, 01:07 PM
Actually it's still not clear whether r is an r or an i with apostrophe, so of course it may turn out either way. -
RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
Wladimir D > 30-10-2017, 06:15 PM
On 1 / issue. If we consider a = e + i, then there is one observation. No gallows can be written between e and i. Perhaps in the language of the manuscript there is a grammatical rule for the formation of the ligature, which is obtained when the gallows need to be written between "e" and "i".
By 2 / part. There are two more cases of writing an apostrophe with the touch of the symbol "a", and (perhaps?) оne case of writing with a gap.
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RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
-JKP- > 31-10-2017, 02:13 AM
It's quite possible that "a" is e + i. But whether it is a ligature or purely a morphological choice, I've been trying to figure out for a long itme.
I also wonder if EVA-d is e + l (I posted an example on another thread a couple of months back). It is sometimes written with a straight stem.
Those are good examples you posted.
One looks like e + r while the other looks like a with a tail but whether they are the same or different... hmmmmm. -
RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
Wladimir D > 28-04-2018, 07:44 PM
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RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
DONJCH > 04-05-2018, 10:19 AM
(28-04-2018, 07:44 PM)Wladimir D Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems to me that there is a face print on the left edge of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. page. On the old scanner, the presser belt is slightly shifted to the right and a second face appears, but not the full face (cut off). ???
Sorry, I think this is paradolia - anybody else? -
RE: ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.
DONJCH > 06-05-2018, 02:18 AM
(04-05-2018, 10:19 AM)DONJCH Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(28-04-2018, 07:44 PM)Wladimir D Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems to me that there is a face print on the left edge of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. page. On the old scanner, the presser belt is slightly shifted to the right and a second face appears, but not the full face (cut off). ???
Sorry, I think this is paradolia - anybody else?
That's "parEIdolia" - I should not type in the early hours while half asleep!
Nevertheless, it is good to document these things, even if it turns out to be (say) water damage.
This may (for instance) help to match misplaced folios.