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5 years ago My diagrams of the edition chunks showing where the fragmentary witnesses align with the other editions are in this Readme: https://github.com/PghFrankenstein/Pittsburgh_Frankenstein/blob/master/collateXPrep/Readme_SGA_CollationPrep.md
@raffazizzi @Rikkm We now have full collation of all available witnesses, including multiple short fragments from the Frankenstein draft notebooks. We may want to take stock of these--the maximum available witnesses are in a little subdirectory with a cluster of collation units for MS Fragments. Raff, I imagine you can generate pointers into any of these, but I wonder if it'll be challenging to deal with multiple ms witnesses in the same file?
One really simple thing I'd like to do is draw some new diagrams mapping the locations of these fragmentary witnesses with the full collation, and indicating exactly where we have gaps between the available material from the notebooks and the full text of the published novel. At the moment, I'm probably best situated to draw these because I had to find exact alignment points with our collation units, so I'll give it a try soon! One weirdness of of our python-collateX process is that I needed to generate some blank "dummy" files for all witnesses, so that for every collation I process the same number of files for each witness. Some of our collation units simply don't contain any ms notebook materials, and some of our units have two or even three different draft ms notebook witnesses!