wlpotter
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1 month ago Thanks @xchkong! These are all great questions!
- For transliteration, yes if you are able please do fix the diacritics. this page will have many of the characters you need for doing so
- For the "probably composed by..." we do want to include the attribution to Sergius as an author element; however, we would want to include in a note element Wright's uncertainty, i.e.:
<note>Probably composed by Sergius of Rās-'ain</note> - On italics, one of the distinctions between XML and HTML is that XML is interested in the meaning of the marked-up text while HTML is interested in the display. So for cases where Wright has italicized text, we'd want to know if that is because it is a title or for some other purpose. In this case, de Fato is a title, so we would wrap it in a
<ref>element
https://github.com/srophe/britishLibrary-data/blob/main/data/tei/426.xml [Sorry! I forgot if this is the URL that is asked to be attached here]
①Transliteration Rules: Wright uses Rās-'ain throughout Add. 14,658, but the website shows Ras'ain in many items. Not sure if it matters (cf. line 171, 204, 212, etc. in XML).
②In Item 12 (Philosophic Discourse), Wright says 'probably composed by Sergius of Rās-'ain', but it seems the website has directly attributed this to Sergius (cf. line 212 in XML).
③Some italics are not preserved in the website (cf. de Fato in line 299 in XML; Wright, 1157). Not sure if it is because the XML doesn't support typing italicised texts.